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

Earthy

Viniculture
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

Earthy is a tasting descriptor for wines that have aromas of soil, forest floor, mushroom, or wet leaves, often from old vines.

Detailed Definition
Earthy’s poetic character is groundedness—it connects wine to the dirt from which it came, to humus and decay. Poets use earthy to discuss mortality, authenticity, and the return to the soil. It is a humbling note, reminding of origins and ends. In verses about peasants, plowing, and the cycle of seasons, earthy flavors anchor the wine in the real, resisting mere fruitiness. Earthy wines often pair with rustic foods, evoking the kitchen garden and the smell of rain on dry ground.
Example
Example in poetry:
Earthy|"An earthy wine is a wine of the soil, its flavors of mushroom, forest floor, and leather a taste of the earth itself."; "The poet finds in earthy wines a connection to the land, a reminder of our mortal, grounded nature."; "Earthy flavors in wine are the signature of old vines and traditional winemaking, a subject for poems of authenticity."; "The poet uses earthy to evoke the cycle of life and death, the return of all things to the soil."; "An earthy wine is a humbling experience, a taste of the humility that underlies all great art."; "The poet compares earthy notes to the raw materials of poetry, the unpolished, essential stuff of life."
Additional Notes
Earthy is a tasting descriptor that evokes aromas of soil, forest floor, mushroom, and wet leaves, often associated with old vines and traditional winemaking. In poetry, earthy can be a powerful way to connect a wine to its physical origins, grounding it in the dirt and the cycles of nature. This term suggests a humility, an acknowledgment of the body and its eventual return to the ground, making it a natural fit for pastoral, meditative, and elegiac verses. Students should consider that earthy flavors can be a sign of complexity and depth, a quality poets may value as a counterpoint to more superficial, fruity notes. Related terms include terroir, tannin, and minerality.
Other Meanings of “Earthy”
Also Known As
Terroir-driven Petrichor
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