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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

Concentrate

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

Concentrate refers to grape juice or must that has had water removed to intensify flavor and sugar levels.

Detailed Definition
Concentrate symbolizes intensity, distillation, and the removal of dilution in verse. It suggests focusing essence, stripping away the non-essential to reveal core truth. Poets may use it to discuss emotional intensity, artistic compression, or the power of brevity, where less volume yields greater impact, reflecting the value of density and potency over expansiveness.
Example
Example in poetry:
Concentrate was the boiled-down must, a syrup the poet called "the essence of a thousand grapes in a spoon"; He wrote of concentrate as the poem's compression—removing water to leave pure flavor; In her verse, concentrate was the sorrow reduced to its core, a dark sweetness without dilution; The poet compared concentrate to the final couplet, dense with meaning, each drop a distilled harvest; She called it the alchemist's residue, where volume yields to intensity, a primal grape-ghost
Additional Notes
Concentrate in the context of viticulture and enology refers to grape must or juice that has had a significant portion of its water content removed, typically through vacuum evaporation, reverse osmosis, or freeze concentration, resulting in a thick, intensely flavored syrup that can be used to adjust sugar levels, color, or flavor in winemaking; this is distinct from the natural concentration that occurs through botrytis or late harvesting, as it is a technological intervention, often used in the production of dessert wines or to correct underripe seasons; for poetry students, concentrate serves as a metaphor for reduction and essence—the stripping away of the extraneous to arrive at a pure, potent core, much as a poet revises to compress meaning into the fewest possible words, and it raises interesting questions about authenticity and the line between natural and engineered wine.
Also Known As
must reduction rectified must sugar boost
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