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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Loggia

Architecture
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 roofed open-sided gallery or room. In poetry, it suggests a sheltered threshold between inward reflection and outward observation.

Detailed Definition
A loggia is a covered architectural space open on one or more sides, often overlooking a garden, street, or court. It combines shelter with exposure, allowing inhabitants to look outward while remaining framed by the building. In poetry, a loggia can describe a speaker-position poised between interior thought and public scene. The term is apt for meditative observation, where the poem neither withdraws completely nor enters fully into action. Its openness is tempered by enclosure and formal perspective.
Example
Example in poetry:
“They took coffee in the loggia while rain crossed the garden” uses loggia for an open-sided roofed gallery; A poet can write “the loggia held the shade between house and noon” to show its sheltered openness; “From the loggia, she counted cypresses” places a speaker at a threshold between interior and landscape; “Columns paced the loggia like quiet guards” emphasizes the arcade-like structure of the space
Additional Notes
Loggia evokes a protected but open space. It can describe a poem poised between private thought and public scene, allowing the speaker to observe outward without fully leaving shelter.
Also Known As
Open Gallery Arcaded Gallery
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