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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coomb

Archaic Terms
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 coomb is an archaic term for either a dry measure of grain or other goods, or, more poetically, a steep narrow valley, hollow, or sheltered dip in the landscape.

Detailed Definition
As an archaic term, coomb has two distinct meanings. In older commercial and agricultural usage, it referred to a measure for dry goods, especially grain, though its exact value varied by place and period. In poetry and landscape description, it more often means a small valley, deep hollow, or steep-sided cleft, giving the word a strongly rural, old English, and topographical flavour.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The sheep moved slowly through the shadowed coomb, Where evening gathered under the hill.” Here, coomb suggests a secluded valley or hollow, adding an older pastoral tone to the landscape.
Additional Notes
Coomb is related to regional forms such as combe, coombe, and the Welsh cwm, all associated with valleys or hollows. The landscape meaning is especially useful in pastoral, Romantic, or regional poetry, where it can evoke enclosed countryside, isolation, shelter, or ancient terrain. The measuring sense is now largely historical, so in poetic contexts readers are more likely to understand coomb* as a valley unless the surrounding language concerns trade, farming, grain, or market quantities.
Also Known As
combe coombe
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