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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Know inside out

Idiomatic Phrase
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

An idiomatic phrase meaning to understand thoroughly, know comprehensively, or master completely; spatial-inversion metaphor used in poetry to convey exhaustive familiarity, intimate knowledge, or total comprehension through interior-exterior reversal imagery emphasizing penetrative insight.

Detailed Definition
Know inside out means to understand someone or something thoroughly, intimately, and from every angle. In poetry, it can describe deep knowledge of a place, craft, beloved, body, grief, language, or memory. The idiom’s spatial image suggests not only surface familiarity but knowledge of hidden workings. A poet may use it to claim authority, tenderness, or mastery, though it can also be ironic when supposed certainty fails. It is valuable for poems about intimacy, expertise, repetition, and the limits of knowing.
Example
Example in poetry:
A nature poet might know the old wood inside out, from badger path to bluebell bank; In a love poem, the speaker claims to know the beloved's moods inside out; The phrase means to know something thoroughly; A poet can use it to show intimacy, mastery, or long familiarity.
Additional Notes
To know something inside out means understand it completely and intimately. The idiom suggests turning a thing over, exposing both surface and interior. In poetry, it can describe knowledge of a place, body, language, craft, grief, or beloved person. Students should ask whether such knowledge is affectionate, expert, obsessive, or illusory. It pairs well with garments, rooms, maps, anatomy, and the hidden structures of memory.
Also Known As
know thoroughly
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