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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Muscat

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

Muscat is an ancient white grape family, producing highly aromatic, sweet or dry wines with musk, orange flower, and grapey flavors.

Detailed Definition
Muscat’s poetic resonance is its primordial, almost feral perfume—it is one of the oldest cultivated grapes, and its scent carries the weight of millennia, evoking Greek and Roman bacchanals. Its sweetness and floral intensity make it a wine of celebration, seduction, and divine favor. Poets use Muscat to conjure the sun-drenched islands of Greece, the spices of the Levant, and the heady atmosphere of harvest moon festivals. Its name itself suggests musk, a base note of attraction, linking it to themes of desire and the senses.
Example
Example in poetry:
Muscat|"Muscat, the ancient grape of musk and orange flower, is a poem of the senses, its intense perfume a link to the past."; "The poet finds in Muscat the taste of the Mediterranean, the sun, the sea, and the history of wine itself."; "Muscat's sweetness and floral notes make it a wine of seduction, a subject for poems of desire and delight."; "The poet uses Muscat to evoke the classical world, the bacchanals and banquets of ancient Greece and Rome."; "Muscat is a wine of the gods, a poem of divine favor and earthly pleasure."; "The poet compares Muscat to an ode, a formal address to a subject worthy of the highest praise."
Additional Notes
Muscat is one of the world's oldest and most widely planted grape families, producing intensely aromatic wines with notes of musk, orange flower, and grape. Its ancient lineage and distinctive perfume make it a natural subject for poems about the distant past, the senses, and the heady allure of antiquity. Muscat is incredibly versatile, produced as a dry table wine, a sweet dessert wine, and a fortified wine, allowing poets to explore its many facets. Students should note that Muscat's name is derived from the Latin "musca," meaning "fly," a reference to the wine's sweet aroma that attracts insects. Related terms include Moscato and aromatic.
Also Known As
Moscato
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