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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Quarantine

Medical Terms
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 period of isolation used to prevent the spread of infectious disease. In poetry it may symbolise separation, fear of contagion, or enforced solitude.

Detailed Definition
Quarantine historically involved isolating individuals or ships for a fixed period, often forty days, to prevent the spread of contagious illness. The practice became common during outbreaks of plague and other epidemics. In literature quarantine represents both medical precaution and social isolation. Poets sometimes use the term to explore themes of loneliness, suspicion, and the boundaries between communities when fear of disease separates people from one another.
Example
Example in poetry:
The ship was held in quarantine for forty days; Poets write of the loneliness of quarantine; She spent the illness in strict quarantine at home; The quarantine prevented the spread of the disease; He described the silence of the quarantine zone; Quarantine is a restriction on movement to stop infection.
Additional Notes
Quarantine refers to isolation imposed to prevent disease transmission. In poetry it may symbolise loneliness, separation, or social fear. Characters placed in quarantine experience physical isolation that mirrors emotional exile. The concept also appears metaphorically when societies isolate unwanted ideas or people.
Also Known As
Isolation Medical Isolation Disease Isolation
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