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

Home › Glossary › Letter H

hull

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

The main watertight body of a ship, excluding masts, rigging, and superstructure.

Detailed Definition
The hull is the essential vessel—the protective shell that keeps the sea at bay. In poetry, it represents the physical self, the body that carries consciousness through the element of life. Its integrity or breach becomes a metaphor for psychological resilience or collapse. Poets invoke the hull to discuss endurance, containment, and the fragile barrier between interiority and the overwhelming forces of nature. Its wooden or iron construction also evokes craftsmanship and human ingenuity, while its immersion in water ties it to the primal imagery of the womb and the grave.
Example
Example in poetry:
The hull in poetry represents the essential vessel—the protective shell that keeps the sea at bay.; It symbolizes the physical self, the body that carries consciousness through the element of life.; Its integrity or breach becomes a metaphor for psychological resilience or collapse.; Poets invoke the hull to discuss endurance, containment, and the fragile barrier between interiority and overwhelming forces.; The hull’s immersion in water ties it to primal imagery of the womb and the grave.; Its wooden or iron construction evokes craftsmanship and human ingenuity against nature.
Additional Notes
The hull is the ship's essential, watertight body, the protective shell that contains the vessel and its cargo. In poetry, it represents the physical self, the body that carries consciousness through the element of life. Its integrity or breach becomes a direct metaphor for psychological resilience or catastrophic collapse. Poets invoke the hull to discuss endurance, containment, and the fragile but vital barrier between one's interiority and the overwhelming forces of the external world. The hull's immersion in water ties it to primal imagery of the womb and the grave. Its material—wood or iron—evokes both the craftsmanship of human ingenuity and the vulnerability of a constructed thing against nature.
Also Known As
Shell body main body vessel body
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