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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main

Nautical
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 poetic or archaic term for the open ocean or the high seas; also refers to the mainmast.

Detailed Definition
The main, in its oceanic sense, is the heart of the maritime world, the great expanse that has inspired poets for millennia. It carries a sense of the archetypal, the original, the "main chance" of fortune. In poetry, the main is often invoked in majestic, sweeping tones—"the main" as the central character of all seafaring narratives. It embodies the collective unconscious of voyaging, the repository of all storms and calms. Poets use the main to create an aura of timelessness, connecting their verses to Homer and the ancient mariners, suggesting that every voyage is a re-enactment of the first human push from shore.
Example
Example in poetry:
The main, in its oceanic sense, is the heart of the maritime world, the great expanse that has inspired poets for millennia.; It carries a sense of the archetypal, the original, the “main chance” of fortune.; In poetry, the main is often invoked in majestic, sweeping tones.; It embodies the collective unconscious of voyaging, the repository of all storms and calms.; Poets use the main to create an aura of timelessness, connecting their verses to Homer.; Every voyage is a re-enactment of the first human push from shore.
Additional Notes
"The main" is a poetic and archaic term for the open ocean, often used in majestic, sweeping tones. In this sense, it is the heart of the maritime world, the great expanse that has inspired poets for millennia. It carries a sense of the archetypal and the original, the "main chance" of fortune. Poets use "the main" to create an aura of timelessness, connecting their verses to Homer and the ancient mariners. It embodies the collective unconscious of voyaging, the repository of all storms and calms. Every voyage is a re-enactment of the first human push from shore, and "the main" is the stage for that eternal drama.
Also Known As
High seas ocean open ocean the blue water
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