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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Syncline

Geology
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 downward-curving fold in layered rock. It may evoke gathering, concealment, or the weight of time.

Detailed Definition
A syncline is a fold in rock layers that curves downward, often preserving younger layers near its center. Poets may draw on its basinlike shape to imagine places where rain, memory, voices, or sorrow collect. Unlike a simple hollow, a syncline records compression: its curve was made by pressure acting over long periods. This gives the image a quiet gravity, useful for poems about inwardness, concealment, and the way a landscape can keep traces of forces no longer visible.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Rain gathered in the syncline, where the rock layers bowed downward,” uses the fold as a natural basin; A poet might write, “Her voice fell into a syncline of sleep,” suggesting a downward curve into quietness; “The syncline held younger layers in its hollow” gives a landscape poem scientifically grounded detail; In a poem of mourning, “I carried sorrow in the syncline of my chest” uses the geological form as an image of inwardness; “Along the syncline, grasses softened the folded stone” contrasts hard geological structure with living growth
Additional Notes
A syncline is a downward fold in rock layers, often holding younger strata in its center. Its bowl-like form can suggest shelter, collecting, grief, concealment, or the slow settling of history into a low place.
Also Known As
Synclinal Fold Downfold
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