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

pier

Nautical
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 platform supported by pillars, extending from the shore into the water, used for embarking or landing.

Detailed Definition
The pier is the finger of the land reaching into the sea, a promenade of wood or stone that bridges two worlds. In poetry, it symbolizes invitation, the extension of hospitality, and the yearning of the shore for the voyager. It is a place of waiting—for a ship to arrive, for a lover to return, for news from afar. Poets use the pier to evoke the loneliness of those left behind, the anxiety of delayed arrivals, and the bittersweet moment of stepping from the solid pier onto the heaving deck. Its exposed, often windswept location makes it a stage for dramatic farewells and emotional confrontations.
Example
Example in poetry:
The pier in poetry symbolizes invitation, the extension of hospitality, and the yearning of the shore for the voyager.; It is a place of waiting—for a ship to arrive, for a lover to return, for news from afar.; Poets use the pier to evoke the loneliness of those left behind and the anxiety of delayed arrivals.; The bittersweet moment of stepping from the solid pier onto the heaving deck is a classic poetic scene.; Its exposed, often windswept location makes it a stage for dramatic farewells.; The pier is the finger of the land reaching into the sea, bridging two worlds.
Additional Notes
The pier is a platform extending from the shore into the water, and in poetry it symbolizes invitation, the extension of hospitality, and the yearning of the land for the voyager. It is a place of waiting—for a ship to arrive, for a lover to return, for news from afar. Poets use the pier to evoke the loneliness of those left behind, the anxiety of delayed arrivals, and the bittersweet moment of stepping from solid ground onto the heaving deck. Its exposed, windswept location makes it a stage for dramatic farewells and emotional confrontations, a threshold between two worlds.
Other Meanings of “pier”
Also Known As
Wharf jetty dock landing stage quay Pillar
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