A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Boxwood

Flora
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A dense evergreen shrub with small, glossy leaves, commonly used for formal hedges and topiary.

Detailed Definition
Boxwood appears in poetry as a symbol of permanence, restraint, and human control over nature. Its use in formal gardens and mazes makes it represent order, civilization, and geometric beauty. The plant's slow growth and longevity suggest patience and endurance. In garden poetry, boxwood hedges frame other beauties or create boundaries, serving as metaphors for structure in life, the shaping of character, or the tension between wildness and cultivation. Its unchanging greenness represents constancy.
Example
Example in poetry:
Boxwood's evergreen nature and use in formal gardens symbolizes constancy, stoicism, and enduring friendship; Precisely clipped boxwood hedges represent human control, order, and geometric perfection in garden poetry; The plant's slow growth makes it a metaphor for patience and gradual, steady progress; In English garden poetry, boxwood parterres evoke historical periods and classical garden design; The plant's pungent smell when cut provides sensory detail in poems about garden maintenance; Ancient boxwood in historic gardens becomes a symbol of living history and continuity across generations
Additional Notes
Boxwood is associated with formality, restraint, and geometric design in gardens. As a hedge plant shaped into topiary, it suggests control and human order imposed on nature. In poetry it can contrast cultivated symmetry with wild growth.
Also Known As
Box Common Box
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