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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

Pinot

Viniculture
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

Pinot refers to the Pinot family of grape varieties, including Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc, and Pinot Gris, known for their thin skins and sensitivity.

Detailed Definition
Pinot’s poetic allure is its fragility—it is notoriously difficult to grow, requiring precise terroir, which poets use as a metaphor for vulnerability, neurosis, and the delicate nature of true art. Its pale red wines (Pinot Noir) often carry ethereal notes of rose and red berry, making them figures for romantic longing and fleeting beauty. Poets invoke Pinot to discuss the tension between nature’s gifts and human intervention, the thin-skinned grape mirroring the poet’s own sensitivity to external pressures and the quest for perfect expression.
Example
Example in poetry:
Pinot|"Pinot, the fragile, thin-skinned grape, is a wine of sensitivity, its pale color and ethereal flavors a poem of vulnerability."; "The poet finds in Pinot a wine of place, its expression a reflection of the exact terrain where it is grown."; "Pinot's difficulty makes it a subject for poems about the challenges of art, the delicate balance required for greatness."; "The poet uses Pinot to discuss the importance of terroir, the way the land shapes the wine's character."; "Pinot is a wine of nuance, a poem that rewards the patient and the attentive."; "The poet compares Pinot to a lyric poem, its fragility a source of its beauty."
Additional Notes
Pinot is a family of grape varieties, including Pinot Noir, Pinot Blanc, and Pinot Gris, known for their thin skins, sensitivity to terroir, and expression of delicate, ethereal flavors. Pinot Noir is the most famous, the grape of Burgundy, and it is notoriously difficult to grow, making it a symbol of artistic fragility and the high cost of perfection. In poetry, Pinot can be used to explore themes of vulnerability, the elusive nature of beauty, and the pursuit of a craft that is exacting and unforgiving. Students should compare Pinot to its more robust cousins, like Cabernet, to appreciate the spectrum of grape characters. Related terms include Burgundy and terroir.
Also Known As
Pinot Noir Pinot Blanc Pinot Gris
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