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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Fuchsia

Flora
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 flowering shrub with distinctive pendant blooms combining two colors, often purple and red, shaped like dancing figures.

Detailed Definition
Fuchsias symbolize elegance, confiding love, and graceful movement in poetry. Their dangling, two-toned flowers suggest dancers, earrings, or bells. The flower's exotic appearance and vivid colors represent tropical abundance even in temperate gardens. In poetry, fuchsias evoke cottage gardens, hanging baskets, and Victorian conservatories. Their pendulous form invites comparisons to teardrops, lanterns, or ballerinas. The flower's complexity—multiple colors and layers—makes it ideal for exploring intricate emotions and layered meanings.
Example
Example in poetry:
Fuchsia's dangling, two-toned flowers inspire imagery of dancers, ballerinas, or bells; In Victorian conservatory poetry, exotic fuchsias represent cultivation and tropical allure; The flowers' dramatic colors (pink, purple, red) create vivid chromatic effects; Hummingbird-pollinated fuchsias appear in poems about New World ecology; The plant's need for careful culture represents delicacy and specialized care; Fuchsia's pendant blooms create downward-looking imagery, suggesting modesty or introspection
Additional Notes
Fuchsia’s pendant two-tone flowers resemble earrings or “dancing” skirts, giving poets an easy route into personification and movement. Often associated with cottage gardens and shaded patios, it can signal sheltered domestic spaces and summer leisure. The strong magenta and purple palette reads as exuberant or theatrical, useful for poems about display, flirtation, or joy. Its hanging habit also lends itself to images of lanterns, teardrops, and suspended colour.
Also Known As
Lady’s Eardrops Magenta
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