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

Rush

Flora
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 grass-like plant with cylindrical green stems and small brown flowers, growing in wet places.

Detailed Definition
Rushes symbolize docility, wet places, and traditional crafts in poetry. Their use in basketry, floor covering, and rushlights links them to domestic life and making-do. Growing in marshes and stream edges, rushes represent liminal spaces and water presence. In pastoral poetry, rushes evoke wetlands and traditional landscape uses. The biblical story of Moses in bulrushes adds associations with rescue and floating. Poets use rushes to represent humble materials, wetland ecosystems, and the plants that serve while characterizing their environments.
Example
Example in poetry:
Rushes growing in wetlands represent simplicity, flexibility, and traditional basketry; In biblical imagery, Moses's basket of rushes connects to salvation and protection; The saying "not worth a rush" (rushes as cheap floor covering) adds historical poverty imagery; Rush lights made with rush pith appear in poems about pre-industrial lighting; In wetland poetry, rushes symbolize saturated soils and water's edge; The plants' cylindrical stems provide geometric simplicity in nature poetry
Additional Notes
Rushes differ botanically from grasses and sedges, yet are often poetically conflated. Historically used for thatching, floor strewing, and basketry, they connect natural imagery with domestic craft. Growing in damp meadows and marshes, they evoke humility and plainness. Their cylindrical stems and unobtrusive flowers suit poems attentive to modest, overlooked flora.
Also Known As
Juncus Soft Rush hurtle Charge
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