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 N

Nördlingen

Battles
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

A 1634 Imperial victory that reversed Swedish gains in the Thirty Years' War.

Detailed Definition
The First Battle of Nördlingen saw Imperial and Spanish forces defeat the Swedish and German Protestant army in southern Germany. Its consequences weakened Swedish influence and encouraged several Protestant princes to seek settlement. In verse, Nördlingen may represent the turning of an age, a field where confidence collapses, and the political price paid when allies discover that shared cause cannot guarantee shared survival.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem may invoke Nördlingen to represent a crushing defeat that ends a season of hope; “Nördlingen darkened the harvest banners” uses the battle as a metaphor for military disaster; A speaker can compare a personal loss to Nördlingen, where confidence gives way to ruin; The name Nördlingen may suggest the long human cost hidden behind a celebrated victory.
Additional Notes
Nördlingen, fought in 1634 during the Thirty Years’ War, was a major Imperial and Spanish victory over Swedish and Protestant forces. It ended much of Sweden’s early dominance in southern Germany. In literary use, the name can represent reversal, dynastic warfare, or the collapse of hard-won military gains.
Also Known As
Battle of Nördlingen
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