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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Selfheal

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 low-growing plant with purple flower spikes, growing in lawns and meadows, traditionally used medicinally.

Detailed Definition
Selfheal symbolizes healing, folk medicine, and plants that cure themselves and others in poetry. The name suggests auto-healing and remedies close at hand. Growing commonly in lawns makes it represent accessible medicine and the pharmacy underfoot. In herbal poetry, selfheal represents traditional knowledge and plants whose names declare their purposes. Poets use selfheal to explore themes of healing, self-reliance, resilience, and how remedies may grow where they're most needed, representing nature's thoughtful provision.
Example
Example in poetry:
Selfheal's purple flower spikes and medicinal history represent folk healing and humble usefulness; In lawn poetry, selfheal (often considered weed) symbolizes undervalued beauty in common places; The plant's traditional uses appear in poems about hedge medicine and accessible remedies; Selfheal in meadows adds purple notes to grassland color palettes; The plant's ability to survive mowing creates metaphors for persistence under pressure; In herbalism poetry, selfheal represents plants that aid recovery and wholeness
Additional Notes
Selfheal, or Prunella vulgaris, carries strong folkloric resonance as a wound herb. Its very name suggests restoration and self-reliance. Common in lawns and meadows, it grounds poetry in everyday landscapes. Writers may use it metaphorically for emotional recovery, especially when contrasting humble remedies with grand suffering.
Also Known As
Heal-All Prunella
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