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.

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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myriads

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

myriads: An archaic and literary term for an exceptionally large or countless number of people or things, emphasizing abundance and the overwhelming scale of a multitude.

Detailed Definition
The term 'myriads' refers to an indefinitely large number, often used in poetic contexts to evoke a sense of vastness or abundance. In the poem, it describes the multitude of celestial bodies emerging from the void, enhancing the imagery of creation and the grandeur of the universe.
Example
Example in poetry:
"by myriads came,—In the joy of youth" from epic; enhanced: "by myriads came,—In the joy of youth as they darted away"; Whitman multitudes: "Myriads of leaves"; contemporary: "Myriads of stars in dark skies"; educational: "Myriads denotes vast numbers in Romantic catalogues."
Additional Notes
The word 'myriads' is used to convey the immense number of orbs that appeared at creation, as seen in the evidence.; Found in the poem, Song of the Stars by William Cullen Bryant
Also Known As
multitudes countless hosts teeming throngs infinities
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