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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ranger

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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

An official who patrols and protects a park, forest, or royal hunting ground

Detailed Definition
The ranger appears in poetry as a guardian of wild spaces and regulated nature. Historically preventing poaching and maintaining boundaries, rangers embodied stewardship. In verse, they symbolize vigilance, solitude, and the tension between preservation and access. Poets use rangers to explore themes of environmental care, the romance of the woods, or the state’s control over natural resources.
Example
Example in poetry:
In frontier poetry, the ranger patrols the wild edge between civilization and wilderness; Longfellow’s “The Song of Hiawatha” includes rangers as mediators between cultures; The ranger’s solitude becomes a canvas for introspective verse on duty and exile; Poets use “ranger” to evoke vigilance, as in border ballads of the American West; In ecological poetry, the ranger guards nature’s sanctity against human encroachment; Modern verse casts the ranger as a mythic guardian of thresholds and liminal spaces.
Additional Notes
Rangers patrolled royal forests or parks to prevent poaching and manage game—figures of authority in natural spaces; unlike foresters, rangers often had law enforcement powers—poetic rangers may embody stewardship, solitude, or the tension between wilderness and control; their presence in verse often marks a liminal zone between civilization and the wild, especially in Romantic or pastoral contexts.
Also Known As
forest keeper gamekeeper warden forester Commando
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