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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tassel

Archaic Terms
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 hanging ornament made of threads gathered at one end; decorative fringe; also the pollen-bearing flower at the top of a corn plant or similar structure.

Detailed Definition
As adornment, “tassel” evokes luxury; as plant part, fertility. In poetry, both appear: tasseled curtains, corn tassels. The duality enriches metaphor—decoration versus function. Poets use it to explore how beauty serves or signifies, where tassels mark status or seasonal abundance, reinforcing themes of artifice, growth, and sensory detail in descriptive and lyrical traditions.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Her gown was trimmed with golden tassel,” in a courtly description; In ceremonial verse: “The banner’s tassel caught the wind”; “He wore a tassel on his scholar’s cap”; “The tassel of memory dangled from the locket”; “The horse’s bridle bore a crimson tassel”; The tassel danced like a tiny flame.
Additional Notes
“Tassel” as ornamental fringe appears in descriptions of regalia or architecture; as botanical term (corn tassel), it grounds poetry in agricultural cycles, blending decoration with fertility in layered natural imagery.
Also Known As
ornament pendant tuft
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