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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Mature

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

Mature describes wine that has reached its peak drinking window, showing developed characteristics.

Detailed Definition
Mature evokes fulfillment, readiness, and the culmination of potential in poetry. It suggests that time brings clarity, complexity, and optimal expression. Poets use it to symbolize middle age, wisdom, or the moment when things align perfectly. It reflects the beauty of arrival, the satisfaction of waiting, and the transient nature of peak experience before decline begins.
Example
Example in poetry:
Mature wine had shed its youthful tannins, and the poet called it the elder's quiet confidence, a settled harmony; He wrote of mature as the vintage that has gained wisdom, its primary fruit fading to earth and leather; In her elegy, mature wine was the poem after many revisions—complex, integrated, and resigned to its final form; The poet compared mature to the late style of Rilke—deep, contemplative, and full of tertiary nuance; She called it the wine that has made peace with its own aging, a liquid testament to time's kindness
Additional Notes
A mature wine is one that has reached its peak of development, exhibiting a harmonious integration of primary fruit, secondary (oak, lees), and tertiary (earth, leather, dried fruit, forest floor) aromas and flavors, with softened tannins and a long, seamless finish; reaching maturity requires time in both barrel and bottle, and the window varies greatly by wine style, grape variety, and vintage, but it represents the moment when all components have evolved to their fullest expression, offering the maximum pleasure and complexity; in poetry, maturity embodies the idea of full realization, the point at which a work has ripened to its definitive form, and it is an essential concept for students learning about wine appreciation, teaching them to be patient and to wait for the moment when a wine reveals its truest self.
Also Known As
aged evolved developed agèd
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