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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By leaps and bounds

Idiomatic Phrase
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

By leaps and bounds: making extremely rapid progress; the kinetic animal imagery of jumping and springing conveys momentum and energy, often used to describe artistic or intellectual growth.

Detailed Definition
By leaps and bounds means very rapidly, with large and visible progress. In poetry, the idiom can describe a child growing, a skill improving, a relationship deepening, a city expanding, or a movement gaining force. Its energetic physical image suggests advancement not by tiny steps but by dramatic surges. A poet may use it optimistically in development-themed poems, though it can also imply change so rapid that it unsettles those watching. It is useful for exploring growth, momentum, and accelerated transformation.
Example
Example in poetry:
A nature poem might say the child grows by leaps and bounds like spring grass; In a poem about recovery, hope returns by leaps and bounds after the first small sign; The phrase suits rapid progress and visible change; A poet could use it to show a village transformed by time and industry.
Additional Notes
By leaps and bounds suggests rapid, visible progress. In poetry it can be literalised through bodily movement, children growing, plants shooting up, rivers rising, or ideas advancing. The phrase has buoyant rhythm and energy, making it useful for optimism, technological change, learning, or emotional recovery. It may also be ironic if progress is too rapid to be stable or humane.
Also Known As
rapidly
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