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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 M

Magret

Viniculture
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

Note: Likely a typo for "Magnum," a large bottle size holding 1.5 liters of wine.

Detailed Definition
Assuming Magnum reference: Magnum symbolizes abundance, celebration, and shared experience in poetry. Its size suggests generosity, communal joy, and the amplification of occasion. Poets use it to evoke feasts, milestones, and the scaling up of pleasure. It reflects the idea that some moments deserve larger vessels, that volume enhances significance, and that sharing multiplies delight.
Example
Example in poetry:
Magret was not a wine but a duck breast, yet the poet paired it with Bordeaux, a fatty richness against tannic grip; He wrote of magret as the culinary foil, a succulent meat that sang with Cabernet's darkness; In her dinner poem, magret sizzled alongside the decanted red, a marriage of protein and polyphenol; The poet compared the magret to the poem's meat—the substantial content that demands a structured wine; She called it the duck's answer to the grape, a harmonious contrast of fat and astringency
Additional Notes
Note: The term "Magret" as provided appears to be a possible typographical error; the intended term may be "Magnum," which is a large wine bottle size holding 1.5 liters, equivalent to two standard bottles, and it is often preferred for aging because the larger volume reduces the ratio of oxygen to wine, slowing maturation; magnums are particularly popular for vintage Champagne and collectible red wines, and their larger format makes them impressive and festive; if the intended term is indeed "Magret," which is a duck breast, it is a culinary term not directly related to wine but often used in pairing discussions with rich red wines like Bordeaux, offering a fatty, savory contrast to tannic reds; please clarify the term for a more accurate note.
Also Known As
duck breast foie gras companion rich fowl
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