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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squall

Nautical
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 sudden, violent windstorm, often accompanied by rain or snow, that arises with little warning.

Detailed Definition
The squall is the sea's ambush, a swift, aggressive onslaught that tests the readiness of crew and vessel. In poetry, it symbolizes unforeseen catastrophe, the flash of fury that disrupts all tranquility. Squalls are brief but fierce, leaving behind a changed deck and shaken nerves. Poets use the squall to dramatize moments of crisis, the sudden intrusion of chaos into orderly life, and the human capacity for rapid response. Its arrival and departure are both swift, making it a metaphor for sharp, passing emotions—anger, panic, or a brief, clarifying terror that passes as quickly as it came.
Example
Example in poetry:
The squall in poetry symbolizes unforeseen catastrophe, the flash of fury that disrupts all tranquility.; Squalls are brief but fierce, leaving behind a changed deck and shaken nerves.; Poets use the squall to dramatize moments of crisis, the sudden intrusion of chaos into orderly life.; Its arrival and departure are both swift, making it a metaphor for sharp, passing emotions—anger, panic, or brief terror.; The squall is a sudden, violent windstorm, often accompanied by rain or snow.; It represents the sea’s ambush, a swift, aggressive onslaught that tests readiness.
Additional Notes
A squall is a sudden, violent windstorm that arises with little warning. In poetry, it symbolizes unforeseen catastrophe, the flash of fury that disrupts all tranquility. Squalls are brief but fierce, leaving behind a changed deck and shaken nerves. Poets use the squall to dramatize moments of crisis, the sudden intrusion of chaos into an orderly life, and the human capacity for rapid response. Its arrival and departure are both swift, making it a potent metaphor for sharp, passing emotions—anger, panic, or a brief, clarifying terror that is as quickly gone as it came.
Other Meanings of “squall”
Also Known As
White squall black squall line squall storm squall
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