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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Toe Ring

Jewellery
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 ring worn on a toe, often as a decorative or cultural ornament. It may be plain metal or set with small stones.

Detailed Definition
A toe ring is an ornament worn around a toe, commonly made from silver, gold, or flexible metal and sometimes carrying a small gem or engraved pattern. It may signify fashion, marriage, cultural tradition, or bodily self-expression. In poetry, its low placement offers an unusual point of attention, drawing the gaze toward sand, water, dancing feet, or bare summer skin. A toe ring can make an ordinary step seem ceremonious, intimate, and lightly musical.
Example
Example in poetry:
“A toe ring chimed softly against the sandaled foot” uses the ornament to add sound and sensual detail to a scene; A poet can use a toe ring in a love poem to focus attention on an intimate, easily overlooked part of the body; “Her toe ring caught the sun, a small moon at the edge of the sea” creates an image of light and movement; In a journey poem, a toe ring leaving a circular mark in dust can symbolize attachment carried through travel
Additional Notes
Toe rings have varied cultural meanings, including marital symbolism in some South Asian traditions, as well as decorative use.
Also Known As
Toe Band
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