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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sinew

Anatomy
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

Sinew is a tough band of connective tissue, usually a tendon, that joins muscle to bone; in poetry, it often symbolizes physical strength, endurance, or binding force.

Detailed Definition
Anatomically, sinews transmit the pull of muscles to bones, allowing the body to move. Poets use the word both literally, to evoke the body’s strength or vulnerability, and figuratively, to describe the force, structure, or resilience of a person, community, or idea. Because “sinew” is more literary and forceful in tone than “tendon,” it is especially common in elevated descriptions of labor, struggle, and vitality.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The old sailor’s sinews tightened against the rope, / holding fast through wind and salt-dark rain.” Here, “sinews” refers literally to the sailor’s tendons and muscles while emphasizing his endurance and strength.
Additional Notes
In modern Anatomy, “tendon” is the more precise term; “sinew” is an older, more poetic word for a tendon or strong fibrous tissue. Sinew can also appear in the phrase “thews and sinews,” meaning bodily strength and muscular power. Figuratively, writers may call something “the sinew” of an organization or cause to mean its essential strength or support. The word comes from Old English and related Germanic words for tendon or cord. Do not confuse sinew with a muscle: a muscle contracts, while a sinew or tendon connects the muscle to bone.
Also Known As
Tendon Muscle Fibre Bodily Strength Cord of Strength Muscle Nerve thew
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