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.

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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See stars

Idiomatic Phrase
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

To see flashes of light due to physical impact or shock; literal description of visual disturbance from blow to head, metaphorically extended to moments of sudden pain or realization.

Detailed Definition
See stars means to experience dizziness, pain, shock, or disorientation after a blow or sudden impact. In poetry, the idiom turns injury into a strange cosmic vision, making the body’s distress appear as light. It can be used literally in fights or accidents, or figuratively when news, grief, beauty, or love overwhelms perception. A poet may exploit the contrast between stars as sublime symbols and stars as symptoms of trauma. The phrase is useful for linking pain, wonder, and altered consciousness.
Example
Example in poetry:
A comic boxing poem might say the apprentice saw stars when the champion's glove found his chin; In a battle poem, a blow makes the soldier see stars beneath a noon sky; The phrase means to be dazed by a hit or shock; A poet can use it for physical impact.
Additional Notes
See stars means experience a dazed sensation, often after a blow to the head. In poetry, it can be literal in scenes of violence, sport, accident, or slapstick, but also metaphorical for shock or sudden disorientation. The phrase interestingly turns injury into celestial vision. Students should notice the contrast between beauty and pain: stars may be sublime in the sky, yet here they are produced by impact and vulnerability.
Also Known As
dizzy
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