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

Tomb

Life And Death
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 structure or chamber for burying the dead. It often symbolizes final rest, memory, confinement, or monumental loss.

Detailed Definition
A tomb is a burial place designed to contain and commemorate the dead, ranging from a simple grave chamber to an elaborate monument. In poetry, tombs can stand for silence, permanence, imprisonment, or the desire to preserve a name against time. Their inscriptions and sealed doors invite reflection on what can be known of the dead. A tomb may also become a metaphor for the body, the mind, or a culture buried beneath history.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Adonais,” the tomb becomes part of the elegy’s larger meditation on memory and immortality; Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” uses tombs and gravestones to ask whose lives are remembered; A poet might write, “The tomb held no answer, / only the weather’s handwriting,” using the tomb as a symbol of silence and endurance; A tomb can be metaphorical, as in “The locked archive became a tomb for her unfinished songs”
Additional Notes
A tomb may represent burial and finality, but also commemoration and endurance. Its stone, darkness, enclosure, or inscription can emphasize confinement, silence, memory, or resistance to forgetting.
Also Known As
Grave Sepulchre Sepulcher Burial Vault casket crypt
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