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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Rupee

Archaic 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 silver or later base-metal coin and currency unit used in India and neighbouring regions.

Detailed Definition
The rupee originated in medieval northern India and became the backbone of monetary systems across South Asia, later adapted under colonial rule. In poetry, “rupee” can summon bazaars, plantations, or bureaucratic offices, where coins pass between rulers and subjects. It may carry colonial overtones—company pay chests, taxes, and the monetisation of traditional economies. Poets use the term to explore themes of exploitation, cultural encounter, or the fragile autonomy bought with local earnings. Its distinct sound marks setting and perspective, embedding economic realities within images of monsoon, crowded streets, and ancestral lands.
Example
Example in poetry:
She counted her rupees by lamplight, each coin a bead on the rosary of survival; With a single rupee he bought tea and the right to linger in the station’s shade; The poet scatters rupees through the verse to evoke bazaars, dust, and vivid cloth; Rupees in poetry often mark the intersection of empire, labour, and small, fierce joys.
Additional Notes
Rupee links South Asian social worlds to colonial and postcolonial economic histories. In poetry it can appear in village markets, railway stations, or bureaucratic environments, where rupees are paid as wages, rents, or bride-prices. Because colonial administrators also counted in rupees, the term can bear the double weight of local life and imperial accounting. Poets may juxtapose rupees with Western currencies to explore inequality in global exchange. In teaching, rupee is a useful starting point for discussing how monetary language interacts with caste, class, and gender in South Asian texts.
Also Known As
Indian rupee
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