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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Magellan

Historical Figure
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

Portuguese explorer who led the first circumnavigation of the globe

Detailed Definition
Ferdinand Magellan died en route, but his expedition proved Earth’s roundness and global connectivity. Poets invoke him as a symbol of daring navigation, the price of discovery, and the human urge to transcend known boundaries into the unknown.
Example
Example in poetry:
Magellan, though he died en route, led the first circumnavigation’s route; Poets praise his fleet that sailed beyond known charts, where ocean’s secrets swarm; His name evokes the price of quest—only one ship returned from the west; In epic stanzas, Magellan stands for human reach beyond the beach; Though Portuguese, he sailed for Spain—his voyage shaped the world’s domain; Verse recalls his courage: to seek the unknown, though death may be sown.
Additional Notes
Ferdinand Magellan (c. 1480–1521), Portuguese explorer who initiated the first circumnavigation of Earth (completed by Elcano); in poetry, Magellan symbolizes global ambition, maritime peril, or the age of discovery—his voyage marks the dawn of planetary consciousness; useful for analyzing poems on exploration, colonialism, or the sublime of the oceanic unknown in Iberian and world literature.
Also Known As
Ferdinand Magellan Fernão de Magalhães
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