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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Moonflower

Flora
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 night-blooming vine with large, fragrant white flowers that open at dusk, related to morning glory.

Detailed Definition
Moonflowers symbolize nocturnal beauty, mystery, and things revealed by darkness rather than light in poetry. Their dramatic evening opening provides spectacle and metaphor for transformation. The pure white flowers gleaming in darkness suggest ghost-like beauty or lunar radiance. The intense fragrance attracting night pollinators adds sensory richness. Poets use moonflowers to explore night gardens, reversed patterns, beauty that shuns daylight, and the alternative revelations that come with darkness. They represent the hidden, the nocturnal, and moon over sun.
Example
Example in poetry:
Moonflower's large white blooms opening at dusk represent lunar beauty and night gardens; The flowers' intense fragrance in darkness creates sensory-rich nocturnal imagery; In tropical poetry, moonflowers symbolize evening awakening and alternative rhythms; The vine's rapid growth and coverage represent transformation and concealment; Moonflowers attracting moths creates ecological poetry about night pollinators; The flowers closing at dawn emphasize ephemeral beauty and timing's importance
Additional Notes
Moonflower opens at dusk, so it is ideal for poems about nocturnal revelation, secrecy, and beauty that belongs to darkness rather than daylight. The large white blooms can read as lanterns or moons at ground level, and their fragrance often intensifies at night, supporting sensory nightscapes. As a relative of morning glory, it forms a paired symbol system: dawn versus dusk, public versus private, the visible day-self versus the hidden night-self.
Also Known As
Night-Blooming Cereus
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