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 I

Intercalary Day

Time And Calendar
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 day inserted into a calendar to keep it aligned with astronomical time. It represents adjustment, interruption, or time outside the usual order.

Detailed Definition
An intercalary day is added when a calendar's regular pattern does not perfectly match the movements of the sun or moon. Leap Day is a familiar example, but many cultures have used inserted days or months to repair their calendars. In poetry, such a day can seem suspended between categories: neither wholly ordinary nor wholly outside time. It offers a compelling image for delay, reprieve, exile, and the human effort to make measure agree with nature.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet imagining a calendar reform might call February 29 an intercalary day, a day inserted to keep the year aligned with the seasons; “She was born on an intercalary day, belonging to the calendar only when it remembered her,” uses the extra day as a metaphor for rarity; In ancient calendars, an intercalary day or month could be inserted to correct the drift between counted time and solar time; A poem can make an intercalary day feel outside ordinary life: “Between winter and March, the spare day opened like a secret room”
Additional Notes
An intercalary day is added to correct a calendar’s drift from the solar year. In poetry, its “extra” status can symbolize suspension, exception, or a moment outside ordinary time.
Also Known As
Epagomenal Day Extra Day
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