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 R

rib

Craft 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

Rib means a slender supporting strip or structural member; in poetry, it can suggest framework, contour, or the supporting lines beneath a shape.

Detailed Definition
Literally, a rib is one of the arched supports in a body or structure. In poetry, the word may be used to imply the skeletal framework of a composition or a visible line of support. It belongs in craft terms because it evokes shape held together from within.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may describe the ribs of a ship's hull as a skeletal structure evoking both strength and vulnerability; Rib imagery in the body often appears in poems about hunger, illness, or mortality; A poem about creation myths might reference Eve formed from Adam's rib to explore themes of origin; Umbrella ribs or vaulted ceiling ribs can serve as architectural metaphor for a poem's underlying structure; A poet describing a skeleton might use exposed ribs to evoke starkness or mortality; Rib cage imagery often conveys vulnerability of the heart protected yet exposed within.
Additional Notes
Rib refers to a slender supporting structural member, whether in the body, a building, or a vessel, and carries connotations of both strength and vulnerability, since ribs provide protective framework while also being associated with exposure and fragility in poems about hunger or illness; instructors might explore the biblical resonance of rib imagery in creation narratives, where Eve's formation from Adam's rib provides rich material for poems exploring origin, gender, and interdependence.
Other Meanings of “rib”
Also Known As
ribbing ridge vein support
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