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 F

Fell

Landscape
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 high barren hill or mountain, especially in northern England. It often conveys exposed upland country.

Detailed Definition
A fell is a broad upland height, commonly treeless and open to weather, cloud, and distant sightlines. Poets use fells to create a stern, elemental setting where walkers are made small by stone, rain, and wind. Heather, scree, tarns, and grazing sheep may animate the slope without softening its isolation. The word can lend a poem a northern cadence and make physical ascent stand for endurance, grief, freedom, or hard-won perspective.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Rain crossed the fell in long grey curtains,” using fell for a high, open northern hill; A poet can emphasize solitude with “one walker on the fell, smaller than a crow”; “The fell kept its snow into April,” shows its elevation and harsh climate; “Heather burned purple along the fellside,” brings colour to an otherwise austere setting
Additional Notes
A fell is a high, open upland or mountain landscape, especially in northern England and Scandinavia. It commonly suggests sparse vegetation, rock, peat, wind, changing weather, and an exposed sense of distance or solitude. Compare downland, which is often chalky and rolling, and moor, which emphasizes uncultivated heath or bog. Regional vocabulary can carry social and historical texture; use precise weather, route, and ground details to prevent the setting from becoming scenic shorthand.
Other Meanings of “Fell”
Also Known As
Hill Mountain
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