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.

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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Broom

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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 cleaning tool that can represent routine labor, clearing, or concealment.

Detailed Definition
The broom brings sweeping, tidying, and daily maintenance into poetic language. Its strokes may erase footprints, gather dust, or move debris from one room to another, making it useful for poems about care and suppression alike. A broom can also carry folklore, humor, or resentment toward unpaid work. By focusing on its bristles and repetitive motion, poets turn an overlooked household task into an image of order, endurance, and what refuses to disappear.
Example
Example in poetry:
A broom can turn cleaning into a metaphor for labor, renewal, or the attempt to remove painful memories; “She swept the porch with a broom until dusk, gathering leaves that returned by morning” suggests work that never fully ends; In Gwendolyn Brooks’s “kitchenette building,” domestic tasks exist alongside cramped urban life and deferred dreams; A broom leaning behind a door can imply that someone has just left or that daily work is waiting
Additional Notes
A broom represents repetitive, often overlooked labor. Sweeping can symbolize cleansing, erasure, control, or an attempt to hide traces of conflict or loss.
Other Meanings of “Broom”
Also Known As
Besom Sweeping Broom
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