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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Sister-in-Law

Kinship
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

The sister of one's spouse or the wife of one's sibling. She is a family relation created through marriage.

Detailed Definition
A sister-in-law is a female relative connected through marriage, either as a spouse's sister or a sibling's wife. Poetic uses often place her within domestic scenes where family roles overlap: she may be confidante, rival, witness, caretaker, or newcomer. Because her connection is marital rather than ancestral, the term can help a poem examine how affection and obligation grow among people who did not begin with a shared childhood.
Example
Example in poetry:
A speaker addresses her sister-in-law as “the sister I met after childhood”; A domestic poem shows a sister-in-law braiding a child’s hair, using the small act to convey affection; In a wedding poem, a sister-in-law helps the bride prepare, linking friendship and family; A reflective poem admits that a sister-in-law can be both a relative and a stranger whose history must be learned
Additional Notes
Sister-in-law can mean a spouse’s sister or a sibling’s wife. Poets may use the relationship to explore family gatherings, new intimacies, rivalry, or support, especially where marriage joins previously separate households.
Also Known As
Sister by Marriage
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