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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Terroir

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

Terroir is the combination of soil, climate, and topography that gives wine its unique character.

Detailed Definition
Terroir evokes place, identity, and the imprint of environment in poetry. It suggests that location shapes essence, that geography is destiny. Poets use it to explore themes of belonging, the specificity of origin, or the irreproducibility of experience. It reflects the belief that taste carries memory of land, and that each sip is a map of somewhere real.
Example
Example in poetry:
Terroir was the sum of soil and climate, the poet's sacred word for a place's taste; He wrote of terroir as the fingerprint of the earth, a combination of bedrock, rain, and sun that a grape translates; In her manifesto, terroir was the poem's origin, the specific coordinates that give the wine its truth; The poet compared terroir to the poet's hometown—a genetic influence that permeates every line; She called it the unavoidable accent, a mineral signature that cannot be faked or replicated
Additional Notes
Terroir is the cornerstone concept of French winemaking, encompassing the unique combination of soil, subsoil, geology, climate, exposure, slope, and even the local microbial ecosystem that gives a wine its distinctive sense of place, and it is the idea that the land itself is tasted in the glass; while the term is difficult to translate directly, it implies a holistic philosophy where the vineyard is inseparable from its final product, and it is central to appellation systems and the pursuit of authenticity; in poetry, terroir is analogous to the unique cultural and geographic origin of a poem, the specific combination of influences, landscape, and personal history that makes a poet's voice singular and unrepeatable, and it encourages students to look for the "place" in every work of art, the invisible but powerful imprint of origin.
Also Known As
sense of place earthly influence vineyard soul
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