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.

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

Isla

River
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 real river in Scotland and Spain; also means “island” in Spanish, adding poetic ambiguity.

Detailed Definition
The Isla—particularly Scotland’s tributary of the Tay—appears in poetry as a symbol of Highland beauty and quiet strength. Its name’s double meaning (“island”) invites metaphors of isolation, sanctuary, or self-contained worlds within the flow of time.
Example
Example in poetry:
Isla, a tributary of the Tay in Perthshire, appears in Scottish regional poetry for its salmon runs; Local poets describe Isla’s confluence with Tay as moment of merging identities; Conservation verse cites Isla as stronghold for Atlantic salmon amid national decline; Its name (Gaelic for “trickling water”) inspires phonetic lyricism; Isla’s meanders through Highland foothills evoke Romantic solitude; Eco-poets use Isla to model community-led river stewardship.
Additional Notes
Isla names rivers in Scotland (Perthshire) and Spain (Navarre); in Spanish, “isla” means “island,” adding poetic ambiguity—suggesting isolation, refuge, or confluence; Scottish poets link it to salmon and Highland resilience, while Iberian contexts may evoke Pyrenean sources and cross-border flows.
Also Known As
River Isla (Scotland) Río Isla (Spain)
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