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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

Home › Glossary › Letter C

cabin

Nautical
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 private room or sleeping quarters on a ship, typically for officers or passengers.

Detailed Definition
The cabin is the intimate cell of the maritime world, a small, personal space carved out of the larger vessel. In poetry, it symbolizes refuge, individuality, and the interior life. It is the place of letters, maps, and personal effects, a sanctuary from the communal labor of the deck. Poets contrast the cabin's cramped but cozy order with the vast, indifferent ocean outside, using it to explore themes of isolation, introspection, and the maintenance of identity in the face of nature's immensity. The cabin window (porthole) offers a framed view of the sea, transforming the infinite into a manageable picture.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Friend, you seem thoughtful. I not wonder much that he who sails the ocean should be sad” (Oliver Wendell Holmes, A Sea Dialogue, Cabin Passenger).; “In cabin’d ships at sea, the boundless blue on every side expanding” (Walt Whitman).; The cabin in poetry represents the intimate interior life, a sanctuary from the communal deck.; Poets contrast the cabin’s cramped order with the vast, indifferent ocean outside.; The cabin is the place of letters, maps, and personal effects—the soul’s private space.; A cabin’s porthole offers a framed view of the sea, transforming the infinite into a manageable picture.
Additional Notes
The cabin is the ship's intimate interior, a private space carved out of the collective vessel, offering refuge and a semblance of domesticity. In poetry, it symbolizes the inner self, the personal sanctuary where the sailor retreats from the communal demands of the deck and the vast indifference of the sea. It is a place of letters, maps, personal effects, and introspection—the physical manifestation of one's private narrative. The cabin's porthole, a small window to the outside, is a powerful image of the framed perspective, where the infinite ocean becomes a manageable, observed picture. Poets can contrast the cabin's cramped order and warmth with the chaos and cold of the sea, using it to explore themes of isolation, privacy, and the maintenance of identity against overwhelming external forces.
Also Known As
Stateroom berth quarters accommodation
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