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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corroboree

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 ceremonial gathering involving song, dance, and ritual, traditionally held by Aboriginal Australians.

Detailed Definition
Corroboree appears in poetry as a marker of communal identity, spiritual continuity, and cultural expression. Poets may reference it to acknowledge Indigenous presence or to contrast ancient ritual with colonial disruption. The term evokes rhythm, movement, and collective memory, offering a powerful counterpoint to solitary or European poetic traditions and enriching verse with ceremonial resonance.
Example
Example in poetry:
Drums rose as the corroboree lit the night air; The corroboree bound earth, body, and spirit; Poets evoke corroboree to honour ancient song; A corroboree shimmered with movement and fire; He listened, humbled, at the corroboree’s power
Additional Notes
Corroboree introduces rhythm, movement, and communal identity into poetry. Writers may invoke the term to honour Indigenous cultural continuity or to contrast ceremonial unity with colonial fragmentation. Its use demands careful contextual awareness, as it represents living traditions rather than abstract ritual. In literary analysis, corroboree often signals collective memory and embodied storytelling, reminding readers that poetry itself shares origins with song, dance, and oral performance.
Also Known As
Ceremonial Gathering Tribal Dance
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