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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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Moselle

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

Moselle is a German wine region along the Mosel River, famed for its steep-slope Rieslings with high acidity and green apple notes.

Detailed Definition
Moselle’s poetic character is shaped by its dramatic river bends and slate terraces, which poets use to depict twisted, intimate landscapes. Its wines are among the most delicate and aromatic, suggesting fragility and ethereal beauty—perfect for elegies and nature meditations. The region’s cool climate yields wines that seem to hold the clarity of mountain streams. In verse, Moselle often appears as a companion to nostalgic journeys, evoking the winding paths of memory and the sharp, refreshing pang of lost youth.
Example
Example in poetry:
Moselle|"Moselle, the wine of the Mosel River, is a poem of steep slopes and slate soils, its Riesling a reflection of the river's winding beauty."; "The poet finds in Moselle the taste of green apples and slate, a flavor of the cool, northern climate."; "Moselle's high acidity and delicate fruit make it a wine of elegance, a subject for poems of subtlety and grace."; "The poet uses Moselle to evoke the romantic landscapes of Germany, the castles and vineyards along the river."; "Moselle is a wine of place, a poem that could only be written in its native valley."; "The poet compares Moselle to a watercolor, its delicate hues and fine lines a study in restraint."
Additional Notes
Moselle is the German wine region along the Mosel River, famous for its steep-slope vineyards and its high-quality Rieslings with pronounced acidity and slate-influenced minerality. The river's winding path and the dramatic, terraced hills create a landscape of sublime beauty that has inspired poets for centuries. In poetry, Moselle can evoke a sense of romantic melancholy, the cool clarity of a northern spring, and the enduring power of a river that shapes both the land and the wine it produces. Students should compare Moselle to the Rhine, another great German wine region, to appreciate the subtle differences in style and sensibility. Related terms include Riesling and Rhine.
Also Known As
Mosel
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