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

Exchange

Economics
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

The act or system of giving one thing in return for another, including trade of goods, services, money, or ideas between people or groups.

Detailed Definition
Exchange is the movement of goods, money, services, or value between parties. Though it may appear balanced, every exchange is shaped by need, information, bargaining power, and social status. Poets use the term to explore gifts, trade, reciprocity, and loss, especially where one person gives labor, land, language, or affection and receives too little in return. It can make intimacy feel like a ledger without reducing it to one.
Example
Example in poetry:
A market poem depicts fish, bread, and cloth changing hands, showing exchange as the basis of community life; The speaker exchanges a day of labor for wages, then questions whether the payment equals the effort; In W. H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” public life is shaped by systems of power and transaction, which a student might connect to economic exchange; A poem may contrast the exchange of coins with an exchange of letters, suggesting that affection has a value money cannot measure
Additional Notes
Exchange may involve money, barter, or trade. In markets, voluntary exchange occurs when both sides believe they benefit from the transaction.
Also Known As
Trade Barter commerce Give and take
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