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.

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

Equity

Law And Justice
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 body of legal principles focused on fairness and flexible remedies when strict rules are insufficient. It can provide relief beyond monetary damages.

Detailed Definition
Equity developed to address cases where rigid application of legal rules would produce an unjust result. Its remedies may include orders to act, refrain from acting, or correct an unfair condition. For poets, equity offers a language of measured fairness rather than identical treatment. It can illuminate poems about unequal burdens, repair, and the moral need to consider circumstance, history, and the human consequences of a rule.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem about equity asks whether equal rules are fair when one child begins with hunger and another with abundance; In legal imagery, equity allows a judge to seek a fair remedy when rigid rules would produce hardship; A speaker uses equity to argue that flood victims need assistance proportionate to their losses; A poem can contrast equality, giving everyone the same ladder, with equity, giving each climber the support needed to reach the wall
Additional Notes
Equity developed to address cases where strict legal rules produce an unfair result. Unlike ordinary money damages, equitable remedies may include injunctions or orders requiring action; in poetry, equity can signify mercy, balance, and justice attentive to particular human circumstances.
Other Meanings of “Equity”
Also Known As
Chancery Equitable Justice
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