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

Home › Glossary › Letter C

Coral Tree

Flora
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 tropical tree with brilliant red or orange flowers resembling coral, blooming in dramatic clusters.

Detailed Definition
Coral trees appear in tropical poetry as symbols of exotic beauty, fiery passion, and dramatic display. Their brilliant flowers and tropical habitat evoke distant, lush landscapes and the intensity of equatorial life. The tree's name connecting it to undersea coral creates layered imagery of connections between land and sea, plant and animal forms. In poetry, coral trees represent bold beauty, the spectacle of nature, and settings far from temperate restraint, embodying tropical abundance and color.
Example
Example in poetry:
Coral tree's brilliant red or orange flowers symbolize tropical passion and exotic beauty; In poetry of warm climates, coral tree blooms mark seasonal changes in places without traditional winters; The tree's thorny trunk and branches contrast with spectacular flowers, balancing danger and beauty; Coral tree seeds used in traditional jewelry connect to poems about adornment and value; The flowers' resemblance to coral reefs creates marine/terrestrial metaphoric bridges; In South African or Australian poetry, coral trees represent native landscape and identity
Additional Notes
Coral tree, with blazing red blossoms, evokes tropical heat and flamboyance. Its dramatic clusters lend themselves to exotic or colonial settings in literature. The coral comparison highlights vivid colour and branching form.
Also Known As
Erythrina Flame Tree
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