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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guildmaster

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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 elected head of a trade or craft guild, responsible for standards and member welfare

Detailed Definition
The guildmaster appears in poetry as a figure of artisanal authority and communal solidarity. Historically overseeing quality, training, and disputes, guildmasters upheld trade integrity. In verse, they symbolize tradition, economic justice, and the dignity of skilled labor. Poets use guildmasters to celebrate urban craftsmanship or critique the exclusivity of guild privileges, reflecting on the balance between protection and innovation.
Example
Example in poetry:
In medieval guild poetry, the guildmaster swears oaths to uphold craft standards; Victorian poets depict guildmasters resisting industrial homogenization; The guildmaster in William Morris’ verse embodies artisanal integrity; Guildmasters appear in civic processions rendered poetically with banners and maces; In Chaucerian contexts, guildmasters dine together as pillars of urban life; Their ledgers symbolize both prosperity and exclusion in social verse.
Additional Notes
Guildmasters led craft or merchant guilds, setting standards, resolving disputes, and representing members politically; they embodied civic pride and economic regulation—poetic guildmasters may symbolize tradition, protectionism, or communal identity; their role highlights the structured nature of pre-industrial labor and urban life.
Also Known As
guild master master of the guild
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