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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Chimes

Musical Instrument
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

Percussion instruments consisting of suspended tubes or rods that produce melodic tones when struck

Detailed Definition
Chimes in poetry suggest fragility, transience, and celestial harmony; their delicate, wind-activated sounds evoke spiritual messages, childhood memory, or the ephemeral nature of beauty, serving as gentle metaphors for hope, warning, or divine presence in lyrical imagery.
Example
Example in poetry:
In memorial poetry, chimes mark the passage from life to silence with gentle resonance; Poets describe wind chimes as “the house breathing in memory”; The chimes appear in garden verse as nature’s own music box; Their metallic ring becomes a metaphor for clarity—sound that cuts through fog; In Japanese-inspired haiku, chimes evoke summer heat and fleeting presence; Contemporary poets use chimes to explore impermanence—each note dissolving into air.
Additional Notes
Chimes (orchestral tubular bells) produce resonant, bell-like tones with slow decay; often used for dramatic or sacred effect, they suggest fate, revelation, or cosmic order—poets may use them to mark turning points or the intrusion of the eternal into the temporal.
Also Known As
Tubular bells orchestral chimes knells
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