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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

Landscape
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 small mountain lake, often formed in a glacial hollow. It is usually dark, cold, and still.

Detailed Definition
A tarn is a high lake resting in a hollow carved by glaciers, often beneath crags or steep mountain slopes. Its dark reflective water gives poets a natural mirror for cloud, moon, and inward thought. Because tarns are isolated and difficult to reach, they can seem untouched by ordinary time, though wind and rain continually disturb them. A poem may use a tarn to hold silence, hidden depth, and the lingering trace of ice in a living landscape.
Example
Example in poetry:
A tarn lay beneath the crags, holding the mountain’s reflection without a ripple; A poet can use a tarn, a small mountain lake, to create an atmosphere of isolation and stillness; The walker reaches a tarn at dusk and sees clouds darken in its cold, clear water; In a mountain poem, the tarn may mirror the speaker’s inward mood while the surrounding peaks remain unmoved
Additional Notes
A tarn is a small upland lake, particularly associated in British usage with mountainous areas such as the Lake District. Many occupy hollows shaped by glacial action, although everyday usage does not always follow a strict geological definition. In poetry, the word can establish a northern or mountainous setting and often suggests isolation, stillness, reflection, coldness, or dark depth. Weather may transform its mood dramatically. Related terms include corrie, cirque, lake, pool, mere, fell, glaciation, mountain landscape, reflection, solitude, and the sublime.
Other Meanings of “Tarn”
Also Known As
Mountain Lake Corrie Lake Lochan
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