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

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Flurry

Winds
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

Flurry is a brief, light snowfall with a gentle breeze, often without accumulation, creating a momentary and delicate dance of snow particles in the air.

Detailed Definition
A flurry is a transient, whimsical weather event, often associated with early winter or spring. Its softness and brevity make it a favourite for poetic imagery of innocence, fleeting happiness, and the subtle passage of time. Poets use the flurry to evoke childhood memories, the transient nature of beauty, or a gentle stir of emotion. Unlike the blizzard's fury, the flurry is a caress—a hint of change that does not overwhelm. It appears in pastoral and romantic verse as a delicate punctuation of stillness, a whisper of colder times ahead.
Example
Example in poetry:
Flurry|Flurry is a brief, light snowfall with a gentle breeze, often without accumulation, creating a momentary and delicate dance of snow particles in the air.|A flurry is a transient, whimsical weather event, often associated with early winter or spring. Its softness and brevity make it a favourite for poetic imagery of innocence, fleeting happiness, and the subtle passage of time. Poets use the flurry to evoke childhood memories, the transient nature of beauty, or a gentle stir of emotion. Unlike the blizzard's fury, the flurry is a caress—a hint of change that does not overwhelm, a delicate punctuation of stillness.;
Additional Notes
A flurry is a brief, light snowfall with a gentle breeze, often without accumulation, creating a momentary and delicate dance of snow particles in the air. In poetry, the flurry is a transient, whimsical image, often associated with early winter or spring, and it carries connotations of innocence, fleeting happiness, and the subtle passage of time. Unlike the blizzard's fury, the flurry is a caress—a hint of change that does not overwhelm. Poets use the flurry to evoke childhood memories, the transient nature of beauty, or a gentle stir of emotion. It is a delicate punctuation of stillness, a whisper of colder times ahead. When writing about a flurry, focus on its lightness, its briefness, and its capacity to transform a landscape without fundamentally altering it. The flurry is a symbol of the ephemeral, a gentle reminder that beauty is often fleeting and that the most delicate moments are often the most precious.
Also Known As
gust
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