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

Evenlode

River
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 Thames tributary in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, flowing through woodland and farmland.

Detailed Definition
The Evenlode’s gentle course through historically rich countryside evokes themes of continuity and rural peace. Its name appears in regional poetry as a symbol of understated beauty and the deep roots of English agrarian life.
Example
Example in poetry:
The Evenlode, a Thames tributary, appears in Cotswold poetry as pastoral ideal; Its name (from Celtic “afon,” river + “Clota,” goddess) inspires etymological verse; Poets contrast Evenlode’s medieval monastic associations with modern agricultural pressure; Conservation poems cite Evenlode’s declining chalk-stream ecology as national warning; Its gentle meanders inspire sonnets on slowness and contemplation; Local poets describe Evenlode’s kingfishers and otters as emblems of hidden resilience.
Additional Notes
The Evenlode, a Thames tributary through Cotswold woodlands, carries Celtic etymology (“afon” + possible deity name) and monastic history; its declining chalk-stream ecology makes it a bellwether for environmental change; poets may use it to meditate on harmony between human settlement and natural flow, or on the quiet erosion of rural biodiversity.
Also Known As
River Evenlode
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