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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Ironwind

Winds
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 hard, metallic-feeling wind that brings severity, cold, or industrial grit.

Detailed Definition
Ironwind names an austere current associated with winter streets, exposed machinery, rail yards, or mountains stripped of vegetation. The term does not require an actual metal scent; it conveys a sensation of hardness and unyielding pressure. In poetry, Ironwind can represent discipline, oppression, endurance, or the emotional climate of a mechanized city. Its blunt consonants suit scenes where tenderness has been suppressed and human figures must move through a world that feels forged rather than grown.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Ironwind” suggests a hard, cold, metallic-feeling wind, as in “Ironwind struck the shutters before dawn”; A poet might use ironwind to represent war, industry, or emotional severity; “Across the abandoned yard, the ironwind worried every rusted chain”; The term gains force when paired with harsh consonants and images of steel
Additional Notes
Ironwind suits scenes of harsh weather, factories, war, or emotional severity. The metallic suggestion makes the wind feel less natural and more mechanical, cold, abrasive, or oppressive. Pair it with images such as rust, steel, smoke, frost, or machinery to strengthen its industrial mood.
Also Known As
Strong wind Gale
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