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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spindle

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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 spindle is a slender rod used to twist fibre into yarn, or a rotating shaft that supports or drives part of a machine.

Detailed Definition
In hand spinning, the spindle gathers and twists loose fibres into continuous thread; in machinery, the term names a rotating shaft or arbor. Poetry most often draws on the ancient textile tool, linking it with women's labour, storytelling, fate, sleep, and the passage of time. The turning spindle transforms scattered softness into a strong line, making it a natural symbol of coherence and creation. Its continuous rotation may also suggest destiny being wound, measured, and eventually exhausted.
Example
Example in poetry:
The spinner turned the spindle and drew loose wool into a continuous thread; In myth and poetry, the spindle often represents fate, time, and the creation of life's thread; Its rotation can suggest repetition and continuity across generations; An abandoned spindle may symbolise interrupted domestic labour or a broken tradition.
Additional Notes
The spindle has both textile and mechanical meanings, so context is important. In hand spinning it twists loose fibre into yarn; in machinery it is a rotating shaft. Poetry most often draws on the older textile tool and its associations with women, fate, storytelling, sleep, and continuity. The turning spindle transforms scattered fibres into a single thread. Related terms include loom, spinning wheel, distaff, yarn, fibre, thread, rotation, fate, domestic labour, inheritance, continuity, storytelling, and the measured unwinding of life.
Other Meanings of “spindle”
Also Known As
hand spindle drop spindle spinning spindle
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