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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loom

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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 loom is a frame or machine used to weave threads together into cloth.

Detailed Definition
The loom holds warp threads under tension while a shuttle or other device carries the weft across them, creating fabric through repeated crossing. It is one of poetry's richest tools because weaving has long symbolised fate, storytelling, memory, and social connection. Looms may evoke domestic industry, factory labour, women's work, or mythic figures who spin and weave human lives. The interlaced threads allow poets to imagine language, history, and relationships as patterns formed from separate strands under tension.
Example
Example in poetry:
In classical mythology and poetry, the loom often represents fate as divine figures weave the course of human lives; The loom clicked through the evening as threads crossed into cloth; A poet may compare language to weaving, with separate words forming a larger pattern; The abandoned loom can symbolise interrupted labour, absence, or a broken family tradition.
Additional Notes
The loom creates cloth by interlacing warp and weft, making it one of literature's most enduring symbols of connection and design. It may appear in mythology, domestic labour, factories, or poems about women's unrecorded work. Weaving readily represents storytelling, history, destiny, relationships, and the construction of identity from separate strands. Students should distinguish the loom from the spindle, which produces thread. Related terms include weaving, warp, weft, shuttle, thread, spindle, textile, pattern, fate, narrative, labour, connection, and inheritance.
Other Meanings of “loom”
Also Known As
weaving loom weaving frame
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