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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

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Ivory

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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

Ivory is a warm, creamy white with subtle yellow undertones, traditionally derived from elephant tusks and linked to luxury and age.

Detailed Definition
Ivory suggests both the polished luxury of carved tusks and the soft, aged white of old paper or bone. Poets use it for skin, keys, or moonlight, balancing associations of purity with those of rarity and ethical cost. The word’s material origin allows it to carry a quiet tension between beauty and the living creature from which it once came.
Example
Example in poetry:
Ivory appears in classical and Romantic verse for polished luxury and aged white surfaces; Keats and others use it for skin, keys, or moonlight with subtle yellow warmth; A modern poet can write “ivory pages of the forgotten journal,” linking color to fragile permanence; In elegiac verse “the ivory silence of the empty room” suggests both purity and absence; Students practice combining ivory with light and age to activate its dual luxury and ethical cost.
Additional Notes
Ivory’s origin in elephant tusks embeds both luxury and ethical cost within the warm, creamy white. Poets employ it for skin, keys, paper, or moonlight with subtle yellow undertones. Tip: pair ivory with age or polished surfaces to activate its dual beauty and rarity. Related whites include alabaster and pearl; ivory remains warmer and more organic. University discussion can examine the tension between aesthetic idealization and the living creature from which the material once came, complicating purely decorative uses.
Also Known As
Ivory White Elephant Tusk Creamy White Pale Bone ivorie
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