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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Mairning

Dialect
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 lingering morning mood of reluctance, wonder, or unfinished sleep.

Detailed Definition
Mairning names the emotional weather of early day when the body has risen but the mind still belongs partly to dreams. In verse it may color a kitchen, a departure, or the first awareness of loss. The term permits morning to be psychologically complex rather than automatically hopeful. It can also suggest a recurring habit of thought, the daily return of a memory that arrives before the speaker is prepared to meet it.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Mairning” can suggest mourning spoken in a Scots-inflected voice; “At mairning light, I carried his name to the shore”; The poet’s use of “mairning” blends morning with grief, making dawn feel elegiac; “Mairning came softly, dressed in the grey of loss.”
Additional Notes
Mairning names the hazy emotional state between waking and beginning the day. It may suggest reluctance to leave sleep, quiet wonder at early light, or thoughts that remain unfinished. The term works well as a mood word in reflective poetry, especially beside images of mist, kettle steam, dawn birds, or dim windows. Related ideas include liminality, reverie, and the Scots sense of “morn.”
Also Known As
Mourning Song Lamenting Verse Grieving Melody
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