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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Eenshade

Dialect
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 dialect word evoking the blue-gray, ambiguous light that descends after sunset before complete darkness, capturing a quiet, transitional moment between day and night.

Detailed Definition
Eenshade names a transitional hour when familiar objects lose their sharp edges. In verse it can hold lovers’ hesitation, the pause before lamps are lit, or a village becoming private after work. The word is atmospheric but also psychological, allowing uncertainty to become part of the setting. An eenshade scene need not be sad, though it often makes hidden thoughts easier to hear because the world has withdrawn its distracting detail.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Eenshade” can name the shadow or darkness of evening: “An eenshade gathered beneath the elms”; The word is useful when a poet wants evening to feel tangible and close; “By eenshade, the windows held their first gold”; In a lyric poem, “eenshade” can mark the transition from daylight into uncertainty.
Additional Notes
Eenshade names the blue-gray interval between day and night, close to twilight or gloaming. Unlike bright sunset, it emphasizes quiet, uncertainty, and fading visibility. Writers may use it to mark a reflective transition. Example: “In the eenshade, the fields lost their edges.”
Also Known As
Evening Shade Dusk Veil Twilight Cover
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