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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morrow

Archaic Terms
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

The following day; tomorrow or the next morning—used in narrative progression or anticipatory lyrical constructions.

Detailed Definition
“Morrow” derives from Old English “morgen” and was standard in Early Modern English for “tomorrow” or “the morning after.” It appears constantly in poetry to mark temporal transitions, create anticipation, or structure narrative (“on the morrow we shall ride”). Its soft consonants and open vowel suit lyrical phrasing, especially in ballads and romantic verse. Though largely replaced by “tomorrow,” “morrow” persists in poetic diction for its elegance and historical resonance, evoking a sense of gentle passage or hopeful expectation.
Example
Example in poetry:
On the morrow we shall ride to war (the next day); Good morrow to you, gentle sir! (greeting - good morning); The morrow brings what fate decrees (the following day, tomorrow); We shall speak more of this on the morrow (tomorrow, next day); I bid thee good morrow and farewell (morning greeting); What the morrow holds, none can say (the coming day)
Additional Notes
Morrow means the following day—tomorrow or the next morning. "Good morrow" is morning greeting, equivalent to "good morning." Shakespeare uses it constantly: "Good morrow, lords." Students should distinguish "morrow" (tomorrow, next day) from "morning" (time of day). Phrases include "on the morrow" (tomorrow), "tomorrow's morrow" (day after tomorrow), and "morrow-tide" (morning time). The term appears mainly in greetings and temporal references. In poetry, morrow provides metrical variation for "tomorrow" and sounds more formal. Etymology from Old English "morgen" (morning). By Victorian times, morrow was archaic except in "good morrow." Modern fantasy and historical fiction revive "good morrow" for period authenticity. Understanding morrow helps interpret temporal sequences in older texts where "tomorrow" and "next morning" blend meanings.
Also Known As
morowe morne morning morn
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