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

Linden Tree

Flora
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

Same as linden; valued for its shade, fragrant flowers, and cultural significance.

Detailed Definition
See linden entry. In poetry, specifically naming it "linden tree" may emphasize the tree's stature and role in landscape rather than just the flowers. The tree form appears in forest poetry, urban park verse, and poems about shelter and gathering. Its role in German romantic poetry as "die Linde" makes it culturally significant symbol. The tree represents longevity, witness to human events, and the way trees structure both landscape and community life across generations.
Example
Example in poetry:
Linden trees (lime trees in British usage) with fragrant blossoms represent summer and sweetness; In Germanic poetry, the linden is the tree of lovers and romantic meetings; The heart-shaped leaves inspire obvious love symbolism in romantic verse; Linden flowers attracting bees create imagery of productivity and natural economy; The tree's use in boulevards represents civic beauty and urban planning; Ancient lindens in town squares symbolize historical continuity and community memory
Additional Notes
Linden Tree repeats and intensifies the cultural weight of linden: a named “tree” can function almost as a character in poems of place, anchoring communal memory, courts, or lovers’ meetings beneath its shade. Its seasonal cycle supports structure: blossom-time fragrance, leaf-shadowed summer, falling leaves. The duplication of term is useful pedagogically: it shows how naming choices shift register from botanical reference to mythic landmark, even when the plant is the same.
Also Known As
Lime Basswood
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