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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Chill out

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

Chill out: to relax and release tension or anxiety; a colloquial idiom rooted in 1970s slang, the temperature metaphor of cooling suggests calming one's emotional heat or urgency.

Detailed Definition
Chill out means to calm down, relax, or release tension. As a modern idiom, it brings contemporary spoken language into poetry and can be effective in poems about anxiety, overstimulation, conflict, youth culture, or everyday stress. The phrase may sound casual, even dismissive, so tone matters: it can comfort, patronise, mock, or genuinely soothe. A poet might place it beside images of heat, pressure, panic, or speed to dramatise the body’s desire for coolness, stillness, and emotional regulation.
Example
Example in poetry:
A modern poem might tell the anxious heart to chill out beneath the evening rain; In comic verse, chill out can puncture excessive drama with casual speech; The phrase suits a contemporary voice seeking calm; A poet could use it ironically when the situation is anything but calm.
Additional Notes
Chill out is a modern informal idiom meaning relax or calm down. In poetry it signals contemporary speech and can make a voice sound casual, youthful, or dismissive. The temperature metaphor may be developed through ice, cooling, shade, or lowered emotional heat. It is best used deliberately, since it can jar against formal diction unless the contrast is part of the poem’s effect.
Also Known As
relax
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