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.

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 T

Tanager

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 brightly colored Neotropical songbird, often red, yellow, or black in plumage.

Detailed Definition
Tanagers symbolize tropical vibrancy, fleeting beauty, and migratory connection in poetry. Their dazzling colors evoke joy and exoticism, while their long journeys link continents. As climate-vulnerable migrants, they appear in ecopoetry as emblems of fragility. Poets use tanagers to explore themes of displacement, the intensity of color in a green canopy, and the bittersweet arrival of summer visitors whose presence is both gift and warning.
Example
Example in poetry:
In neotropical poetry, the tanager’s brilliant red, yellow, or black plumage symbolizes tropical vibrancy and fleeting beauty; Poets use tanagers to evoke the hidden music of forest canopies and the intensity of color in green worlds; As long-distance migrants, tanagers appear in verse linking North American summers to Central American winters; Ecopoets reference tanager declines to discuss deforestation and the fragility of migratory pathways; The scarlet tanager’s contrast—black wings with red body—inspires metaphors for duality and sudden revelation; Its soft, robin-like song adds acoustic surprise to poems set in leafy, summer woods.
Additional Notes
Tanager: Neotropical songbirds (e.g., scarlet tanager) with brilliant plumage, tanagers symbolize tropical vibrancy, seasonal migration, and fleeting summer visits in North America. Their contrast—bright males vs. green females—offers gender or visibility metaphors. Ideal for poems about color, distance, or ephemeral beauty.
Also Known As
Scarlet Tanager Summer Tanager Western Tanager Hepatic Tanager
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