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

Put down roots

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

To establish permanent residence and community connections; agricultural metaphor describing planting roots deeply in soil, signifying commitment to staying and building life in one location.

Detailed Definition
Put down roots means to establish a lasting home, identity, relationship, or sense of belonging in a place or community. In poetry, the idiom draws on plant imagery, suggesting growth, nourishment, depth, and attachment. It can describe migration, settlement, marriage, family, memory, or cultural belonging. A poet may use it tenderly for stability, or ambivalently when rootedness limits freedom. The phrase is useful for exploring home as something grown over time rather than simply occupied.
Example
Example in poetry:
A migration poem might show strangers putting down roots where the river bends and children learn the local songs; In a garden lyric, to put down roots means more than planting flowers; The phrase means to settle and become established; A poet can use it for belonging, memory, and place.
Additional Notes
Put down roots means settle, belong, and establish lasting connections, like a plant anchoring itself in soil. In poetry, it is rich for migration, home-making, marriage, community, exile, and recovery after wandering. The phrase suggests nourishment, stability, patience, and vulnerability to transplantation. Students should compare it with pull up stakes. It pairs well with gardens, trees, houses, ancestry, and the slow work of belonging.
Also Known As
settle
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