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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tilt

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 medieval jousting contest or the act of charging with a lance from horseback; also used poetically to mean to incline or lean.

Detailed Definition
Tilt originally referred to the jousting competitions of chivalric tournaments, where knights on horseback would charge each other with lances. In poetry, especially Renaissance and Romantic verse, “tilt” evokes imagery of honor, combat, and courtly valor. Beyond its literal use, poets also employed “tilt” metaphorically to describe imbalance, emotional swaying, or the dramatic lean of celestial or natural bodies, lending rhythmic force and archaic grandeur to descriptions of both human and cosmic motion.
Example
Example in poetry:
He tilted at windmills, brave but sorely wrong; The lists prepared, they mounted for the tilt; Her heart tilted toward ruin at his word; The ship tilted as waves claimed the mast
Additional Notes
“Tilt” originally referred to jousting but also means to incline or lean. In poetry, it evokes chivalric combat or cosmic imbalance—stars tilting, hearts swaying, worlds askew. Its dual meaning allows metaphorical richness: physical motion and moral/emotional instability. Related terms include “joust,” “lean,” and “list,” but “tilt” uniquely bridges martial tradition and lyrical instability, making it versatile across heroic and introspective modes.
Also Known As
careen joust jousting tilting
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