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 D

date

Perfumery
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

Date is a sweet, caramel-like dried fruit note with sticky, honeyed warmth.

Detailed Definition
The date, in perfumery, is a rich, sweet, and caramelized fruity note that evokes the sticky, dark fruit of the date palm, a tree synonymous with the oases of the Middle East and North Africa. In poetry, the date is a powerful symbol of sustenance, patience, and the sweet rewards that come from enduring hardship. Growing in harsh desert climates, the date palm provides essential nourishment, and its fruit represents life and abundance in arid lands. Poets use the date to evoke exotic landscapes, trading caravans, and the simple joys of a hard-won meal. It symbolizes the sweetness that emerges from a harsh environment, the pleasures that are truly valued because they are not easily obtained. The fruit's sticky, fibrous texture can also represent the binding nature of memory and tradition, connecting a people to their land and history. In romantic verses, the date can be a metaphor for a lover's sweetness, a promise of delight that is both intense and sustaining. Ultimately, the date in poetry is a testament to the power of nature to provide and to the profound human satisfaction derived from simple, essential gifts.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Dates softened in the traveler’s palm” makes sweetness a form of desert sustenance; Date palms can establish an oasis setting in narrative verse; “We broke our fast with dates at dusk” links the fruit to ritual and community; Their wrinkled sweetness may also become a metaphor for stored sunlight, age, or inherited memory
Additional Notes
Date dried fruit note delivers sticky, caramel honeyed sweetness with rich, boozy warmth, ideal for gourmand and oriental bases evoking desert abundance. In poetry education, date symbolizes sustenance, exotic trade, and sweet reward in Middle Eastern or harvest verses; usage tip: blend date with oud or vanilla for luxurious depth in narrative poems of journey and fulfillment. Related to prune, fig, and gourmand, date expands dried fruit palettes. Students learn its concentrated essence parallels poetic condensation of experience into potent lines. Professors connect date to biblical and Arabic literary traditions, enriching cultural sensory analysis and themes of patience yielding sweetness.
Other Meanings of “date”
Also Known As
date fruit date absolute dried date palm date
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