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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Peaches and cream

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

Peaches and cream|Idiomatic Phrase|Perfectly smooth, ideal, or flawless; describes situations, relationships, or appearances that are harmonious, pleasant, and free from problems.

Detailed Definition
Peaches and cream means smooth, lovely, healthy, ideal, or pleasantly attractive, often with associations of complexion, ease, and sweetness. In poetry, the idiom can describe beauty, comfort, domestic charm, or an apparently perfect situation. Its sweetness may be sincere, but poets can also use it ironically when an ideal surface conceals difficulty. The fruit and cream imagery invites sensory detail: softness, colour, taste, and luxury. It is useful for examining how charm can soothe, seduce, or oversimplify reality.
Example
Example in poetry:
A romantic poem might describe the child's cheeks as peaches and cream in the orchard light; In satire, a peaches and cream complexion may hide a sour and calculating heart; The phrase suggests soft, smooth, healthy beauty; A poet can use it for innocence, appearance, or ironic contrast.
Additional Notes
Peaches and cream can suggest smooth perfection, a healthy complexion, or an idealised state of ease. In poetry, the phrase may be sensuous, nostalgic, or ironic. Its sweetness and softness suit pastoral, romantic, and domestic imagery, but it can also expose artificial prettiness. Students should ask whether the idiom hides difficulty beneath charm. It pairs well with skin, summer, desserts, gardens, and the language of ideal surfaces.
Also Known As
perfect
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