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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Glacier

Geology
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 large, slow-moving mass of ice formed from compacted snow. It can represent deep time, endurance, and immense pressure.

Detailed Definition
A glacier is a persistent body of ice that flows slowly under its own weight, carving valleys and carrying rock across great distances. Its motion is nearly invisible on a human scale, yet its effects are immense, making it a powerful poetic emblem of patient force. A glacier can embody grief that moves slowly through generations, history that reshapes a homeland, or a cold reserve hiding tremendous pressure. Its retreat can also make climate loss immediate and elegiac.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The glacier moved without hurry, grinding the valley into shape,” presents ice as an immense patient force; A poet might write, “Your grief is a glacier,” to suggest slow movement and transformative pressure; “Blue light lived in the glacier’s cracks” uses imagery to make ice seem luminous and mysterious; In a poem about climate change, “the glacier calved another white thunder into the sea” gives ecological loss an audible, dramatic moment; “We heard the glacier speaking in meltwater” personifies the landscape while retaining a physical detail
Additional Notes
Glaciers flow slowly under their own weight, carving valleys and transporting rock over long periods. Their scale makes them useful for contrasts between human urgency and deep time, persistence, erosion, or suppressed force.
Also Known As
River of Ice Ice River
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