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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Out of circulation

Idiomatic Phrase
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

Out of circulation|Idiomatic Phrase|Not available, active, or participating; describes someone or something temporarily removed from usual activities, markets, or social interaction.

Detailed Definition
Out of circulation means temporarily or permanently withdrawn from social life, public activity, availability, or common exchange. In poetry, the idiom can describe illness, mourning, retirement, imprisonment, isolation, or a person removed from the emotional marketplace. Its economic and social undertones suggest that people, news, books, and rumours circulate like currency. A poet may use it to explore loneliness, invisibility, recovery, or chosen retreat. It is useful for contrasting public movement with private stillness.
Example
Example in poetry:
A city poem might show the old theatre out of circulation, its posters fading behind locked glass; In a love poem, a heart out of circulation may no longer risk new affection; The phrase means withdrawn from use, society, or regular activity; A poet can use it for people, coins, books, rumours, or memories.
Additional Notes
Out of circulation means no longer active, available, socially visible, or moving within normal exchange. It can refer to money, books, rumours, people, or social participation. In poetry, it is useful for illness, withdrawal, exile, ageing, lost texts, or retreat from public life. Students should notice the circulation metaphor: society is imagined as a bloodstream or system of movement, and absence becomes a kind of stoppage.
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