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

Home › Glossary › Letter S

Spout

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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

Informal for geysers or Aquarian innovative bursts. In poetry, spouts erupts as watery innovations or stellar fountains.

Detailed Definition
Spout, Uranus flash, innovates. In verse, it spouts in explosive imagery like Whitman's. Literary jets symbolize release. The term's upward surge poeticizes invention, where spouts fountain ideas, inspiring themes of breakthrough, flow, and the eruptive poetry of sudden insights.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Jonah's whale echoes by Donne, spout floods prophetic deluge; Modern poet Derek Walcott in "The Sea is History" spouts oceanic archives; Herman Melville's poetic prose spouts Moby Dick's vengeful jets; In biblical verse, spouts rain manna from celestial whales, educating on divine floods.|William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" spouts Ariel's watery prison; T.S. Eliot's "The Dry Salvages" spouts sea gods' gongs.|In Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Leviathan," spout arcs the deep's song; Pablo Neruda's "Ode to the Water," spouts earth's thirsty veins.|In Emily Dickinson's "A Bird came down," spout dives the sea.
Additional Notes
Spout Aquarian inventions or lunar geysers; informal bursts. Poets fountain stellar innovations in watery eruptions—context: Uranus; tip: for breakthroughs; enhances dynamic outpourings in progressive verse.
Also Known As
Water Spout (meteoric)
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