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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Summer Solstice

Seasons
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 longest day of the year, associated with fullness of light and summer's height. It can suggest abundance, intensity, or a turning toward decline.

Detailed Definition
Summer solstice is the point of greatest daylight, when the year seems to pause at its brightest and most expansive. Poets often use it to evoke flowering fields, heat, desire, celebration, and the vivid immediacy of being alive. Because the days begin shortening after this peak, the term can also carry an undertone of impermanence. A summer solstice poem may praise radiant abundance while quietly acknowledging that every climax begins its own departure.
Example
Example in poetry:
"At summer solstice, noon seemed to have no end" conveys the year's longest daylight; A poet can use summer solstice light to heighten images of ripeness and abundance; "The summer solstice burned in the clover fields" links sunlight to rural landscape; Summer solstice imagery can also suggest excess, heat, and the knowledge that days will soon shorten
Additional Notes
The summer solstice represents peak brightness and ripeness, but its turning point also suggests that decline begins within abundance. Contrast heat, light, and shadow for complexity.
Also Known As
Midsummer June Solstice Litha
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