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

Outcrop

Geology
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 exposed portion of bedrock visible at Earth’s surface. It can represent revelation or the emergence of what was buried.

Detailed Definition
An outcrop is a place where bedrock or older geological material is exposed above soil, vegetation, or loose debris. In poetry, it can signal the sudden visibility of a buried history: a dark ridge appearing in a pasture, a scar of stone beside a road. Outcrops offer a natural metaphor for truths that surface despite concealment. Their rough, weathered faces also let poets set the brief human present against material that has endured immense spans of time.
Example
Example in poetry:
“An outcrop of sandstone rose from the grass like the back of a buried animal” uses an outcrop as a visible piece of underlying rock; “At the outcrop, students read layers of stone as if they were pages” makes geology an act of interpretation; A poet could write, “We rested on an outcrop above the valley, close to the earth’s old grammar,” joining place and deep time; “The outcrop showed a band of ash between older layers” can introduce evidence of a long-ago eruption
Additional Notes
An outcrop is bedrock exposed at the surface by erosion, excavation, or uplift. Geologists read its layers, textures, and fractures as evidence of Earth’s history. Poetically, it can represent an exposed truth: something once concealed now weathered into view.
Also Known As
Rock Exposure Exposure kopje
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