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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

Cloudrend

Dialect
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 sudden rift or break in dense cloud cover that releases a beam of light; a vivid dialect word for a fleeting, epiphanic illumination often employed by nature poets to signal revelation or divine intervention.

Detailed Definition
Cloudrend names the visible tear made when storm cover parts for a short while. Poets can use it as a natural image of reprieve, revelation, or emotional hesitation. Unlike a clear sky, a cloudrend retains the threat of weather around its brightness. This makes it valuable in poems where hope is real but temporary. The word can describe a landscape, a face, or a sentence that allows truth to escape before silence closes again.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Cloudrend” can describe something that tears through clouds: “A cloudrend sunbeam struck the valley”; Used as a noun, it can mark a sudden opening in the sky: “Through one cloudrend, the stars appeared”; The compound can create dramatic weather imagery: “The cloudrend wind drove the storm east”; A poet may use it metaphorically for insight: “Her question was a cloudrend in my silence”
Additional Notes
Cloudrend is the sudden break in thick cloud through which light pours. The word combines cloud imagery with the idea of something torn open, making it effective for moments of revelation, hope, or weather change.
Also Known As
Cloudburst Skyshatter Stormrend
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