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

Ridge

Landscape
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 long narrow crest of high ground. It forms a dividing line between slopes, valleys, or watersheds.

Detailed Definition
A ridge is the raised spine of a hill range or mountain, extending like a narrow roof between falling sides. In poetry, it directs movement and vision: a figure climbs toward it, walks its exposed length, or looks from it into separate valleys. Wind, cloud, and light are often more vivid there because nothing blocks them. The ridge can therefore represent decision, balance, and transition, while its geological continuity suggests a deep structure beneath passing human events.
Example
Example in poetry:
The ridge held the last snow, a white seam between the dark valleys; A poet may use a ridge as a boundary the speaker must cross, suggesting effort, change, or discovery; In “The Prelude,” Wordsworth’s mountain landscapes often place the speaker among elevated ridges that inspire awe; Along the ridge, pines leaned eastward, recording years of wind in their bent trunks
Additional Notes
A ridge is a long elevated crest, and in landscape poetry it often serves both as a physical feature and as a visual boundary. A traveller reaching a ridge gains a new prospect, so it can mark revelation, transition, exposure, or the culmination of an ascent. Ridges also divide drainage basins and can function as natural routes through mountainous terrain. Weather and light may make them appear sharp, bare, or silhouetted. Related terms include crest, spine, watershed, escarpment, summit, divide, range, skyline, pass, and the symbolic motif of crossing into another region.
Also Known As
Ridgeline Crest Spine baulk Bulbarrow rib
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