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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

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dibber

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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 dibber is a pointed hand tool used to make holes in soil for seeds, bulbs, or young plants.

Detailed Definition
A dibber is a simple gardening implement, often a tapered wooden or metal spike with a handle, used to prepare evenly spaced planting holes. Its modest scale associates it with patient cultivation rather than dramatic labour. In poetry it may evoke allotments, kitchen gardens, spring planting, and the continuity of seasonal customs. Because it opens the earth to receive future growth, the dibber can symbolise hope, burial, fertility, and trust in unseen processes, especially when a poem links small human gestures with natural renewal.
Example
Example in poetry:
She pressed the dibber into the soil and prepared a place for every bulb; A dibber may symbolise quiet hope because it opens the earth for future growth; The gardener's small holes resembled punctuation marks written across the bed; In a poem about spring, the tool can connect humble labour with faith in unseen renewal.
Additional Notes
A dibber is a modest gardening tool used to make consistent planting holes for seeds, bulbs, and young plants. Its small scale makes it useful in poetry that values ordinary labour and attentive cultivation. Because the tool opens the earth to receive future growth, it may symbolise hope, fertility, burial, patience, or faith in unseen processes. The regular holes can also resemble marks or punctuation across soil. Related terms include trowel, spade, planting, bulb, seed, garden, soil, spring, fertility, renewal, patience, and seasonal expectation.
Also Known As
dibble dibbler planting stick
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