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

Home › Glossary › Letter T

Threshold Charm

Witchcraft
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 protective object or spoken blessing placed at an entrance. It guards the boundary between the home and the outside world.

Detailed Definition
A threshold charm is a protective spell, object, symbol, or blessing placed at a doorway, gate, window, or other point of entry. It may involve herbs, iron, bells, salt, marked wood, or words spoken over a home. In poetry, the threshold is already charged with departure and arrival, making such a charm an especially resonant image. It can express a speaker’s effort to keep harm outside, welcome love within, or guard the fragile border between one life and another.
Example
Example in poetry:
A threshold charm can appear above a doorway as a protective object: “Over the lintel, three rowan berries kept the old sorrow out.”; A poet can use the threshold charm to mark a transition between childhood and adulthood, home and exile, or fear and welcome; “I tied blue thread to the door handle before leaving” turns a simple charm into an image of departure and care; In a house poem, each visitor might notice the threshold charm differently, revealing their relationship to the speaker’s home.
Additional Notes
A threshold charm protects a doorway or crossing place, making the threshold a powerful symbol of change. Writers can use it to explore arrivals, departures, hospitality, boundaries, and the uneasy space between safety inside and uncertainty beyond.
Also Known As
Doorway Charm Door Charm
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