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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Dizi

Musical Instrument
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

Traditional Chinese transverse flute made of bamboo, known for its clear, resonant, and penetrating tone.

Detailed Definition
The dizi’s agile, lyrical sound evokes classical Chinese landscapes, pastoral joy, or martial vigor in poetry; its use in opera and folk music links it to themes of cultural continuity, emotional nuance, and the breath of nature in East Asian lyrical traditions.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Chinese poetry, the dizi’s bright, breathy tone mimics birdsong over misty rivers; Poets describe its membrane hole as “a window where air becomes song”; The dizi appears in classical verse as the voice of pastoral elegance; Its bamboo body becomes a metaphor for flexibility—strength that bends without breaking; In diaspora poetry, the dizi carries Jiangnan landscapes in its wooden curves; Modern poets use the dizi to explore lightness—melody that floats on breath.
Additional Notes
The dizi is a Chinese transverse bamboo flute with a buzzing membrane (dimao), creating a bright, agile tone; central to folk and opera, it suggests pastoral scenes or martial vigor—poets can use it to explore the interplay of nature, artifice, and breath in East Asian aesthetics.
Also Known As
Chinese flute bamboo flute
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