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

loom

Craft Terms
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

Loom is the frame or machine used in weaving to hold the warp threads in place while the weft is passed through them; in poetry, it often suggests the act of making, shaping, or bringing a work into form.

Detailed Definition
Literally, a loom is the device on which cloth is woven, and it depends on the tension and arrangement of the warp to create fabric. In poetic language, it can symbolize the process of composition itself: a place where separate elements are joined into a patterned whole. Because it carries both a practical and symbolic sense, poets may use it to hint at creation, design, or the shaping of experience into art.
Example
Example in poetry:
In a poem, a line such as “The moonlight worked upon the loom of night” uses loom metaphorically to suggest that darkness, light, and time are being woven into a made pattern.
Additional Notes
Loom comes from textile craft vocabulary and is closely related to warp, weft, and weaving. In older or more literary writing, it can also appear as part of the phrase “on the loom,” meaning something is being prepared or formed.
Other Meanings of “loom”
Also Known As
weaving frame loom frame weaving device
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