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

Ordnance

Military
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

Military weapons and ammunition, especially heavy weapons. The word has a formal, institutional tone that can make destruction sound organized.

Detailed Definition
Ordnance refers broadly to weapons, ammunition, and the equipment associated with their use, including artillery and other large systems. In poetry, its bureaucratic sound can sharpen the contrast between administrative language and physical suffering. A line about ordnance may invoke warehouses, inventories, contracts, and trains moving toward the front, showing how violence depends on systems as well as courage. The term can therefore widen a poem’s focus from the battlefield to the industries and decisions that prepare it.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The abandoned ordnance rusted beneath the hill,” using ordnance for military weapons and ammunition; “Cannon and cartridge, the poem’s grim ordnance, darken the harbor,” showing the term in a martial image; “The quartermaster inventoried the ordnance before the campaign,” demonstrating its administrative use; “Words become ordnance when the poet aims them at injustice,” using the term metaphorically for instruments of attack
Additional Notes
Ordnance refers to weapons and ammunition, particularly artillery and other heavy equipment, rather than to warfare in general. Its bureaucratic tone can create irony by presenting violence as inventory or administration. Distinguish it from ordinance, a law or regulation. Related terms include artillery, armament, munitions, arsenal, and matériel.
Also Known As
Munitions Armaments artillery Cannon Firepower Missile Weaponry
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