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

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Oriel

Architecture
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

An oriel is a projecting window supported from below, often extending from an upper story. It can symbolize a sheltered outward gaze.

Detailed Definition
An oriel thrusts a small room or window beyond the main wall, allowing a viewer to look in several directions while remaining enclosed. In poetry, it can become a figure for watchfulness, curiosity, or privileged distance. A speaker in an oriel sees the street, weather, and passing lives without fully joining them, making the form apt for poems about observation, longing, class, or solitude.
Example
Example in poetry:
“From the oriel, she watched the street bend around its rain,” using the projecting window to create a viewpoint outside the wall; A poet can use an oriel as a symbol of partial distance, since its occupant is both indoors and above the crowd; “The oriel’s panes held six small versions of the moon,” emphasizing angles, glass, and reflection; In a narrative poem, a secret observer in an oriel can witness a procession without being seen
Additional Notes
Unlike a bay window resting on the ground, an oriel projects from an upper wall and is supported by brackets or corbels. It is a strong image for private observation: a gaze extended outward yet still sheltered.
Also Known As
Oriel Window
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