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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

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Champagne

Viniculture
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

Champagne is a sparkling wine from France, known for its effervescence and celebratory association with luxury and festivity.

Detailed Definition
Champagne’s poetic resonance is inseparable from joy, triumph, and fleeting ecstasy—its bubbles rise and burst like laughter or stars. Poets from the Romantics to moderns have used its pop and fizz to mark weddings, victories, and New Year’s toasts, while its pale gold and mousse evoke light and transience. Yet its terroir, the chalky slopes of Champagne, grounds it in hardship, reminding poets that brilliance often comes from marginal soils. It appears in anti-war verses as ironic contrast to battlefield mud, and in love poems as a spark of effervescent desire.
Example
Example in poetry:
Champagne|"Champagne is the wine of celebration, its bubbles rising like a poet's inspiration, effervescent and fleeting."; "The poet hears in the pop of a champagne cork the sound of joy, a prelude to verses of love and triumph."; "Champagne's golden color and mousse evoke the light of a summer afternoon, a subject for odes to happiness."; "A glass of champagne is a poem of the moment, its sparkle a reminder to seize the day."; "The poet contrasts champagne's fizz with still wine's gravity, a choice between the ephemeral and the enduring."; "Champagne, with its chalky terroir and méthode traditionnelle, is a wine of labor and luxury, a paradox for the poet to explore."
Additional Notes
Champagne is the world's most famous sparkling wine, known for its effervescence, its association with celebration, and its rigorous production method (méthode traditionnelle). Poets have long used champagne to evoke themes of joy, triumph, and the fleeting nature of happiness, as its bubbles rise and burst like laughter or dreams. The wine's pale gold color and delicate mousse suggest light and elegance, while its chalky terroir and labor-intensive production remind us that great pleasure often requires great effort. Students should note that champagne's ability to age also makes it a subject for poems about endurance, as the best examples gain complexity over decades. Related terms include sparkling wine and méthode traditionnelle.
Also Known As
sparkling royalty méthode champenoise festive effervescence
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