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 O

Olive

Food And Drink
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 small fruit and source of oil. It commonly signifies peace, Mediterranean life, endurance, and sacred blessing.

Detailed Definition
In poetry, the olive tree and its fruit join food imagery to history, landscape, and ritual. Its slow growth and long life make it an emblem of endurance across generations, while the olive branch traditionally signals reconciliation after conflict. Oil from the fruit may evoke lamps, anointing, cooking, and commerce. Poems set near the Mediterranean often use olives to convey dry heat, stone terraces, inherited labor, and the sharp flavors of place.
Example
Example in poetry:
Olive branches have long symbolized peace, especially because of the biblical story of Noah’s dove returning with an olive leaf; In Homer’s Odyssey, the olive tree is associated with rootedness, home, and enduring marriage; A poet might write, “An olive leaf lay green upon the telegram,” placing a peace symbol against news of conflict; Olives and olive oil can also evoke Mediterranean landscapes through groves, stone walls, sunlight, and ancient cultivation
Additional Notes
The olive and olive branch commonly signify peace; olive oil can add associations of light, healing, endurance, and blessing.
Other Meanings of “Olive”
Also Known As
Olive Branch Olea europaea Peace Emblem Mediterranean Fruit
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