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

Home › Glossary › Letter M

Muscle

Anatomy
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

Body tissue that contracts to produce movement and strength. It can symbolize labor, force, discipline, tension, or physical resilience.

Detailed Definition
Muscle gives poetry a language for effort made visible. Tensed muscle may show fear, anger, preparation, or desire, while sore muscle can testify to work, training, illness, or a difficult journey. Poets often contrast muscle with tenderness, showing that strength need not be hardness alone. In social and political verse, muscle may represent collective labor or coercive power. Its contractions and releases also provide a bodily rhythm for writing about strain, rest, and the costs of endurance.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Each muscle remembered the climb” shows how the body can hold experience as memory; “Her muscles tightened at the sound of the door” conveys fear through physical response rather than explanation; “The swimmer’s muscles cut the water into silver” links bodily strength to visual motion; “A poem can compare muscle to rope when describing labor, strain, or endurance”
Additional Notes
Muscle emphasizes effort and embodiment. Use it to evoke work, training, strain, protection, violence, or a body resisting collapse.
Also Known As
Musculature Sinew thew
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