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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Stork

Birds
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 large, long-legged wading bird associated with birth, fidelity, and migration.

Detailed Definition
Storks symbolize delivery, loyalty, and cyclical return in poetry. European folklore links them to childbirth, while their monogamy and long migrations evoke faithfulness and seasonal rhythm. In ecopoetry, they represent wetland health and transcontinental connections. Poets use storks to explore themes of hope, renewal, and the ancient pathways that bind continents, often casting them as benevolent messengers bridging human and natural worlds.
Example
Example in poetry:
In European folklore-inspired poetry, the stork symbolizes childbirth, fidelity, and the delivery of new life; Poets use the stork’s long migrations to explore themes of return, cyclical time, and transcontinental connection; In ecopoetry, storks nesting on chimneys or pylons represent coexistence and adaptation to human landscapes; The stork’s silent flight (lacking a syrinx) appears in verse as a contrast to songbirds—grace without music; Ecopoets reference storks to discuss wetland health and the importance of insect-rich foraging grounds; The stork’s monogamous pair bonds inspire metaphors for loyalty and shared parental duty.
Additional Notes
Stork: Culturally iconic as a bringer of babies (European folklore), storks also symbolize fidelity (they often mate for life) and migratory wonder (flying over the Mediterranean). In poetry, they can bridge myth and ecology—use their soaring flight and wetland nesting to explore themes of delivery, return, or cultural memory.
Also Known As
White Stork Black Stork Wood Stork (New World)
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