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

log

Nautical
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 device for measuring a ship's speed, originally a wooden board thrown overboard on a line.

Detailed Definition
Beyond its practical use, the log in poetry becomes the chronicle of the voyage—the written record of distance, time, and events. It embodies memory, documentation, and the human impulse to inscribe experience against oblivion. The daily entry, the careful note of latitude and longitude, transforms the journey into narrative. Poets often play on the dual meaning of "log" as both instrument and diary, using it to ponder how we measure our lives, how we preserve fleeting moments, and how the ship's track through water parallels the writer's track through language, leaving a wake of words behind.
Example
Example in poetry:
The log in poetry becomes the chronicle of the voyage—the written record of distance, time, and events.; It embodies memory, documentation, and the human impulse to inscribe experience against oblivion.; The daily entry in the log transforms the journey into narrative.; Poets play on the dual meaning of “log” as both instrument and diary.; The log measures a ship’s speed, but it also records the crew’s lives.; The ship’s track through water parallels the writer’s track through language, leaving a wake of words.
Additional Notes
The log is a device for measuring a ship's speed (originally a wooden board thrown overboard) and also the name for the ship's journal. In poetry, this dual meaning is powerful: the log is both the instrument of measurement and the chronicle of the voyage itself. It embodies memory, documentation, and the human impulse to inscribe experience against oblivion. The daily entry transforms the journey into a narrative, and poets play on the idea that the ship's track through the water parallels the writer's track through language, leaving a wake of words behind. The log is a symbol of reflection, record-keeping, and the attempt to make sense of time and distance.
Also Known As
Chip log patent log log line taffrail log blockhead
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