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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 H

hatch

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

An opening in the deck to allow access below, fitted with a watertight cover called a hatchway.

Detailed Definition
The hatch is the mouth of the ship's interior, the portal between the open, windy deck and the dark, enclosed hold. In poetry, it symbolizes access, secrecy, and the boundary between the public and the private, the conscious and the subconscious. The hatch cover, when battened down, is a symbol of preparedness against the storm, sealing off the ship's vitals from the external fury. Poets use the hatch to evoke the hidden cargo—physical or emotional—that the ship carries, and the moment of opening a hatch after a voyage can be a powerful image of revelation, reunion, or the unleashing of long-contained contents.
Example
Example in poetry:
The hatch in poetry symbolizes access, secrecy, and the boundary between the public and the private, the conscious and the subconscious.; The hatch cover, when battened down, is a symbol of preparedness against the storm.; Poets use the hatch to evoke the hidden cargo—physical or emotional—that the ship carries.; The moment of opening a hatch after a voyage can be a powerful image of revelation or reunion.; The hatch is the mouth of the ship’s interior, the portal between the open deck and the dark hold.; Its closure represents sealing off the ship’s vitals from external fury.
Additional Notes
The hatch is a watertight opening in the deck, providing access to the ship's interior, and in poetry it symbolizes access, secrecy, and the boundary between the public deck and the private hold. A battened-down hatch is a powerful image of preparedness against the storm, sealing off the ship's vitals from external fury. Poets use the hatch to evoke the hidden cargo—physical goods, emotional secrets, or subconscious contents—that the ship carries. The act of opening a hatch after a voyage becomes a potent metaphor for revelation, reunion, or the unleashing of long-contained truths. The hatch is a threshold, a liminal space between the light of the deck and the darkness of the hold.
Also Known As
Hatchway companion hatch cargo hatch batten
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