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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Pilaster

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 flat rectangular column attached to a wall. In poetry, it can represent decorative support, restraint, or strength made visible at the surface.

Detailed Definition
A pilaster resembles a column but remains bound to the wall, occupying an ambiguous space between structure and ornament. Poets can draw on that ambiguity when writing about appearances that carry real force, or about people whose support is constrained by the systems around them. Its vertical line adds rhythm to a facade, much like repeated images or parallel syntax can order a poem. A pilaster may therefore suggest disciplined beauty, limited independence, and support that cannot fully step away.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Flat pilasters climbed the facade like shadows of columns” accurately uses pilaster as a shallow decorative support; A poet may compare a person’s rigid posture to “a pilaster against the wall”; “The pilasters wore their flaking paint with dignity” gives architectural details a human quality; In a description poem, pilasters can reveal how a building imitates grandeur without needing full columns
Additional Notes
A pilaster resembles a column but is attached to a wall. It can suggest surface strength, ornament, restraint, or support that is partly symbolic.
Also Known As
Engaged Pier
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