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 S

sandbar

Nautical
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 ridge of sand formed by currents along a coast or in a river, often submerged.

Detailed Definition
The sandbar is the shifting, mutable barrier at the mouth of a river or entrance to a harbor. In poetry, it symbolizes transition, the liminal zone between fresh and salt water, and the temporary nature of all boundaries. Sandbars are constantly moving, making them unreliable and dangerous, yet they also offer a place where land begins to emerge from the depths. Poets evoke the sandbar in meditations on the threshold of life and death—Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" being the supreme example—where the voyage ends and the pilot meets the divine. Its sandy nature suggests impermanence and the gentle, rather than violent, dissolution of form.
Example
Example in poetry:
The sandbar in poetry symbolizes transition, the liminal zone between fresh and salt water, and the temporary nature of all boundaries.; Sandbars are constantly moving, making them unreliable and dangerous, yet they also offer a place where land begins to emerge.; Tennyson’s “Crossing the Bar” is the supreme example, where the voyage ends and the pilot meets the divine.; Its sandy nature suggests impermanence and the gentle dissolution of form.; The sandbar is a long, narrow ridge of sand formed by currents.; It represents the shifting, mutable barrier at the mouth of a river or entrance to a harbor.
Additional Notes
A sandbar is a long, narrow ridge of sand formed by currents, often submerged and always shifting. In poetry, it symbolizes transition, the liminal zone between fresh and salt water, and the temporary nature of all boundaries. Sandbars are unreliable and dangerous, yet they also offer a place where land begins to emerge from the depths. Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" is the supreme example, where the sandbar becomes a metaphor for the threshold between life and death, and the voyage ends as the pilot meets the divine. Its sandy nature suggests gentle, rather than violent, dissolution and change.
Also Known As
Shoal spit bar shelf bank
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