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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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Tawny

Viniculture
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

Tawny describes an amber-brown color in wines, especially aged ports and sherries, from prolonged oxidation and wood aging.

Detailed Definition
Tawny’s poetic color is the hue of autumn leaves, sunset, and old gold—it is the patina of age, of wine that has mellowed in cask for decades. Poets use tawny to evoke nostalgia, the amber of memory, and the warmth of time passing. It contrasts with ruby’s vivid youth. In verses about twilight, aging, and the fading of passion, tawny appears as a gentle, embracing color, full of honey and dried fruit. The tawny port’s nutty, caramelized flavors suggest the sweet resignation of years well spent.
Example
Example in poetry:
Tawny|"Tawny is the color of an aged wine, a hue of amber and brown, a poem of time and oxidation."; "The poet sees in tawny the color of autumn leaves, of old gold, of the fading light of a long day."; "Tawny port is a wine that has spent years in cask, a subject for poems about the slow work of time."; "The poet uses tawny to evoke the warmth of a fireplace, the comfort of an old, familiar story."; "Tawny is a color of nostalgia, a poem of memories that have mellowed with age."; "The poet compares tawny to a sepia photograph, its colors a testament to the past."
Additional Notes
Tawny is an amber-brown color that is the hallmark of aged wines, particularly port and sherry, which have been oxidized over time in wood. This color, which evokes autumn leaves, old leather, and the golden light of a setting sun, is a powerful symbol of age, wisdom, and the mellowing of sharp edges. In poetry, tawny can be used to evoke a sense of nostalgia, of things that have been softened and enriched by the passage of time. Students should contrast tawny with ruby, its youthful counterpart, to understand the spectrum of color and character that wine can express. Related terms include ruby, color, and oxidation.
Also Known As
Tawny port Amber
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