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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 F

flood

Nautical
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 rising or incoming tide, when water flows toward the shore; in poetry, it represents renewal, the cyclical rhythm of nature, or an overwhelming force that invades and transforms the landscape.

Detailed Definition
Flood tide is the surge of arrival, the swelling of potential, the return of what was withdrawn. In poetry, it symbolizes renewal, opportunity, and the gathering of strength for a new venture. Its rising waters lift the ship from the mud, enabling departure or return, and thus it becomes an image of liberation or reunion. The flood is also associated with hope, fertility, and the maternal rhythm of the sea. Poets often set the climax of their narratives at high water, where the fullness of tide offers the maximum prospect for action, or they use it to evoke the overwhelming influx of emotion that cannot be contained.
Example
Example in poetry:
Flood tide in poetry symbolizes renewal, opportunity, and the gathering of strength for a new venture.; Its rising waters lift the ship from the mud, enabling departure or return.; The flood is associated with hope, fertility, and the maternal rhythm of the sea.; Poets often set the climax of their narratives at high water, where the fullness of tide offers maximum prospect.; The flood tide is the surge of arrival, the swelling of potential, the return of what was withdrawn.; In love poetry, the flood tide represents the overwhelming influx of emotion that cannot be contained.
Additional Notes
Flood tide, the incoming flow of water, is the polar opposite of the ebb, symbolizing renewal, opportunity, and the gathering of strength for a new venture. Its rising waters lift the ship from the mud, enabling departure, return, or a change of fortune. In poetry, the flood is associated with hope, fertility, new beginnings, and the surging, maternal rhythm of the sea that brings life and sustenance. Poets often set their narrative's turning points at high water, where the fullness of tide offers the maximum depth and potential for action. The flood tide is the return of what was withdrawn, the swelling of promise, and the overwhelming influx of emotion or circumstance that cannot be contained. It is the tide of arrival and possibility.
Other Meanings of “flood”
Also Known As
Flood tide rising tide incoming tide flow tide spate tide Deluge
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