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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

Escarpment

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 steep slope or cliff separating two levels of land. It may evoke division, threshold, or dramatic exposure.

Detailed Definition
An escarpment is a long, steep slope or cliff that separates relatively level areas of land at different elevations. It gives poetry a commanding physical boundary: a place from which one can see distance, weather, settlement, and change. Its abrupt rise may symbolize a divide between past and present, safety and risk, or one social world and another. An escarpment can make a landscape feel both sheltering and exposed, inviting contemplation of scale and consequence.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The escarpment lifted sharply above the plain, catching the last gold light” uses the landform to create dramatic elevation; “From the escarpment, the speaker sees the town reduced to smoke and roofs” gives a poem a powerful viewpoint; A poet may write, “The escarpment was the edge between the farmed valley and the wild plateau,” emphasizing contrast; “Wind climbed the escarpment and tore at the hawk’s wings” uses the steep slope to intensify motion and weather
Additional Notes
An escarpment is a steep slope or cliff that separates higher and lower ground, often shaped by erosion or faulting. It creates a natural edge in a landscape, making it useful for scenes of threshold, separation, descent, exposure, and difficult perspective.
Also Known As
Scarp Bulbarrow Scar
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