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 P

Pergola

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

A pergola is an open garden structure of posts and crossbeams, often supporting climbing plants. It can evoke cultivated nature and filtered time.

Detailed Definition
A pergola makes a walkable frame for vines, light, and seasonal growth, joining deliberate construction to unruly living foliage. Poets may use it to explore the meeting of order and abundance, especially in gardens associated with courtship, aging, or remembrance. Its shifting shade provides a natural image for time passing through a patterned structure, as leaves repeatedly alter the same beams and paths.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The pergola stitched shade across the garden path,” using the open framework of posts and crossbeams, often covered with vines; A love poem can place two figures beneath a pergola to suggest cultivated privacy rather than complete enclosure; “Wisteria climbed the pergola, teaching wood to become green,” showing how plants transform a built structure; In a seasonal poem, the bare pergola can symbolize winter’s exposed framework before leaves return
Additional Notes
A pergola is more open than a roofed pavilion, its beams creating a framework for vines and shifting shade. It can join structure with growth, making it useful for poems about cultivation, seasons, memory, or filtered light.
Also Known As
Arbor
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