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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Mead

Food And Drink
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

An alcoholic drink fermented from honey. It evokes ancient feasting, heroic culture, and ceremonial fellowship.

Detailed Definition
Mead appears especially in poems drawing on medieval, Norse, Anglo-Saxon, or mythic traditions. Passed around a hall, it can affirm loyalty between ruler and retainers, bind strangers into fellowship, or accompany songs of battle and ancestry. Its honeyed source tempers martial imagery with warmth and richness. Modern poets may invoke mead to create an archaic atmosphere or to question the masculine ideals preserved in heroic feast scenes.
Example
Example in poetry:
Mead is associated with Anglo-Saxon and Norse poetry, where the mead hall is a place of fellowship, storytelling, and loyalty; In Beowulf, Hrothgar’s hall Heorot is a central setting for feasting and drinking mead; A poet might write, “Mead rang in the cups while the old singer named the dead,” blending celebration with remembrance; Mead can give a modern poem an archaic, legendary atmosphere when used carefully with concrete details
Additional Notes
Mead evokes older heroic and mythic settings, where drinking seals fellowship, celebrates victory, or accompanies storytelling.
Also Known As
Honey Wine meadow
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