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 L

Limpopo

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 river of borders, childhood imagination, wildness, and elusive belonging.

Detailed Definition
The Limpopo can lend a poem a vivid, story-shaped atmosphere in which geography feels close to fable. Its name may evoke a boundary between known and unknown places, especially when a speaker recalls how childhood turns a distant river into a creature, challenge, or promised destination. Yet the river can also ground that imaginative charge in real histories of travel, settlement, ecology, and separation. It works well for poems about growing beyond inherited stories while preserving their imaginative force and the sense that every map leaves something out.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The Limpopo curled through thornveld under a copper sun,” using regional landscape imagery; “At the Limpopo, crocodiles made the quiet water dangerous,” creating tension through personification and detail; “The Limpopo marked the edge of the traveler’s map,” presenting the river as a boundary; “We crossed the Limpopo at dusk, carrying the smell of rain,” using sensory imagery and movement.
Additional Notes
The Limpopo flows through southern Africa and is strongly associated with literary journeys, especially the imaginative geography of childhood adventure. It can suggest a boundary between the familiar and unknown, while also carrying ideas of wildlife, danger, and uncertain belonging. Useful related themes are maps, storytelling, exploration, and home.
Also Known As
Mackenzie River Deh Cho
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