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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Tarn

River
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 river in southern France, tributary to the Garonne, flowing through dramatic gorges.

Detailed Definition
The Tarn’s rugged gorges and clear waters inspire awe in nature poetry, symbolizing wild beauty and geographic drama. Often overlooked in mainstream literature, it appears in regional and mountaineering verse as a testament to untamed landscapes. Its name, meaning “lake” in Old Norse, adds a layer of linguistic mystery that poets occasionally exploit.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Occitan troubadour verse, Tarn symbolizes rugged southern solitude and Cathar memory; Eco-poets decry damming of Tarn (e.g., Millau Viaduct area) as landscape fragmentation; Regional poems describe Tarn’s gorges as natural cathedrals of light and stone; Contemporary verse contrasts Tarn’s wild upper reaches with tamed lower course; The river appears in climate poetry as sentinel of Pyrenean glacial melt; Local poets tie Tarn to chestnut forests and pastoral traditions.
Additional Notes
The Tarn River flows through dramatic southern French gorges near Millau; associated with Cathar resistance and limestone geology, it evokes rugged solitude and historical martyrdom; poets may use it to explore vertical landscapes, light in deep canyons, or the tension between natural monumentality and human fragility.
Other Meanings of “Tarn”
Also Known As
Tarn River Le Tarn lochan
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