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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

Home › Glossary › Letter D

dock

Nautical
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

An enclosed area of water for mooring, repairing, or loading ships, often with gates or alongside a wharf.

Detailed Definition
The dock is the ship's point of interaction with the land, a constructed basin that brings the vessel to the very edge of commerce. In poetry, it symbolizes transition, the exchange between sea and shore, and the mingling of sailor and landsman. Docks are places of departure and arrival, of tearful goodbyes and joyous reunions. Poets evoke the dock's hard edges, its tarry smells, and its bustling crowds to contrast with the clean solitude of the open ocean. The dry dock, where ships are exposed for repair, becomes a metaphor for vulnerability and the laying bare of hidden faults.
Example
Example in poetry:
“One launched a ship, but she was wrecked at sea; he built a bridge, but floods have borne it down” (Jean Ingelow).; “Rome built a bridge to cross over the river … bridges of steel that remind us of home” (Reader’s poem).; The dock in poetry symbolizes transition, the exchange between sea and shore, and the mingling of sailor and landsman.; Poets evoke the dock’s hard edges and bustling crowds to contrast with the clean solitude of the open ocean.; The dry dock, where ships are exposed for repair, becomes a metaphor for vulnerability.; A dock is the point of departure and arrival, of tearful goodbyes and joyous reunions.
Additional Notes
The dock is the ship's point of physical and commercial interaction with the shore, an enclosed, often industrial space that bridges sea and land. In poetry, it symbolizes transition, the exchange of goods and people, and the mingling of the sailor's world with the landsman's. Docks are places of departure and arrival, charged with the emotions of farewell, anticipation, and reunion. The dry dock, where a ship is drawn out of the water for repair, is a particularly potent image of vulnerability and exposure, a metaphor for the process of self-examination or the laying bare of hidden faults. The dock's hard edges, tarry smells, and bustling crowds offer a sharp contrast to the clean, isolated solitude of the open sea.
Also Known As
Dry dock wet dock floating dock basin harbor basin harbor pier wharf
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