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

Divan

Furnishings
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 low, cushioned sofa or couch, often placed against a wall. It can evoke conversation, repose, and richly furnished interiors.

Detailed Definition
A divan is a broad, low couch associated with reclining conversation, hospitality, and richly layered interiors. In poetry, its cushions may suggest sensual ease or the slow passage of an afternoon spent talking, dreaming, or grieving. The object can carry historical associations with salons, parlors, and Eastern-inspired decorative fantasies. A divan crowded with shawls and pillows may create warmth and abundance, while an empty one can leave a room feeling expectant, as though a conversation has just ended or is about to begin.
Example
Example in poetry:
“She lay upon the divan, listening to rain revise the window” uses the divan as a setting for stillness and reflection; A poet may describe a faded divan to suggest inherited luxury or domestic decay; “On the divan, our quarrel cooled between two embroidered cushions” makes the furniture witness an intimate scene; In a poem about travel, a divan can evoke an Eastern-inspired room, leisure, or old-world elegance
Additional Notes
In a poem, a divan can create an atmosphere of leisure, intimacy, or luxury. Its low, reclining form may suggest storytelling, conversation, idleness, or an exoticized interior; compare couch, chaise longue, and settee.
Also Known As
Daybed Couch Sofa chaise
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