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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

Canopy Bed

Furnishings
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 bed with an overhead frame often draped in fabric. It can suggest privacy, luxury, childhood fantasy, or enclosure.

Detailed Definition
A canopy bed creates a room within a room, enclosing sleep behind curtains, posts, and hanging fabric. Poets may use it to suggest aristocratic luxury, childhood make-believe, bridal intimacy, or the protective illusions of domestic life. Drawn curtains can hide sickness, grief, or desire from the rest of the household. When the canopy hangs dusty or torn, it can turn grandeur into decay, making the bed a vivid emblem of a family history that has outlasted its former splendor.
Example
Example in poetry:
A canopy bed surrounds a sleeping child with curtains that resemble a private kingdom; In a love poem, the canopy bed can create a sense of shelter and intimacy; Torn fabric above a canopy bed may suggest that wealth has faded or protection has failed; “Rain tapped the canopy bed’s posts like a visitor denied entry” gives the furniture an active role in the scene
Additional Notes
A canopy bed can evoke privilege and luxury, but its curtains also make it a partly enclosed architectural space within a room. Poets may therefore use it to suggest privacy, erotic intimacy, childhood security, sickness, confinement, secrecy, or death. In historical settings, curtained beds also offered warmth and seclusion in rooms that were less private than modern bedrooms. Consider whether the curtains are open or closed and who is permitted inside. Related terms include bedstead, tester bed, curtain, chamber, marriage bed, deathbed, enclosure, domestic space, and theatrical imagery.
Also Known As
Four-Poster Bed Tester Bed
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