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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Eclipse

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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 astronomical event in which one celestial body passes into the shadow of another, blocking light; in poetry, it symbolizes obscuration, cosmic alignment, dread, or the temporary veiling of familiar radiance.

Detailed Definition
An eclipse allows a poet to make darkness temporary, patterned, and celestial. When the moon covers the sun or Earth darkens the moon, familiar light becomes strange, prompting awe and unease. Poems may use an eclipse to represent interruption, concealment, grief, or a moment when ordinary order seems suspended. Because the obscured body remains present, the term can also suggest love, memory, or hope that has not vanished but is briefly hidden.
Example
Example in poetry:
“During the eclipse, daylight thinned to a metallic dusk” gives sensory detail to an astronomical event; A poet might write, “Your absence was an eclipse, not the end of the sun,” distinguishing temporary obscuring from loss; “The moon crossed the sun like a dark syllable” turns eclipse into an image of interruption in language; In an elegy, an eclipse can mark communal astonishment: “Even the birds fell silent when the light withdrew”
Additional Notes
An eclipse may be solar or lunar; it occurs when celestial alignment causes one body to block light from another.
Other Meanings of “Eclipse”
Also Known As
Occultation
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