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 E

Earthquake

Geology
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 shaking of the ground caused by sudden movement within Earth's crust. It can symbolize upheaval, instability, and revelation.

Detailed Definition
An earthquake occurs when stress stored in Earth's crust is released suddenly, sending seismic waves through the ground. Buildings sway, roads split, and familiar places may become dangerous in moments. In poetry, an earthquake offers more than spectacle: it can express emotional rupture, political unrest, grief, or a truth that breaks through a carefully maintained surface. Its force reminds the reader that apparent stability may rest upon pressure no one can see.
Example
Example in poetry:
The earthquake shook cups from the shelf and made the familiar house strange; A poet can use an earthquake literally to portray disaster or figuratively to describe a life suddenly overturned; “After the earthquake, even silence trembled” extends physical shaking into emotional aftermath; In a poem about resilience, neighbors gathering after an earthquake can show community emerging from rupture
Additional Notes
Earthquakes release energy along faults in the crust. Poetic use gains force when sudden shaking is set against the long, unseen strain that preceded it.
Also Known As
Quake Tremor Temblor
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