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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Brumal

Seasons
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

Relating to winter or wintry conditions. It often suggests cold, stillness, and seasonal austerity.

Detailed Definition
Brumal derives from a Latin word for winter and describes the coldest, darkest character of the year. In poetry, it can lend a formal or archaic texture to scenes of bare branches, frozen fields, shortened days, and inward reflection. A brumal landscape may be severe, but it can also be purified and lucid, making the term useful when winter is presented as a season of endurance, silence, or suspended life.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Brumal” can describe winter’s deepest cold, as in “brumal winds scour the empty field”; A poet might write “the brumal river held its breath beneath ice” to make winter seem still and animate; In a pastoral poem, “brumal smoke” can suggest hearth fires rising through cold air; “Brumal silence” effectively conveys the muffled quiet of a snow-covered landscape
Additional Notes
Brumal is a poetic adjective meaning wintery or belonging to winter, often suggesting hush, cold, barrenness, darkness, and restraint. Because it is elevated diction, it works best when the surrounding voice can carry its formal or literary tone. Compare hiemal, wintry, and hibernal; “brumal” often feels more atmospheric than merely descriptive. Study hint: balance the abstract adjective with physical details such as frost, short light, or frozen ground.
Also Known As
Wintry Hibernal
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