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

Turret

Architecture
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 turret is a small tower projecting from a larger building, often at a corner. It can symbolize watchfulness, romantic isolation, or a heightened viewpoint.

Detailed Definition
A turret rises above the main mass of a building as a compact lookout, sometimes defensive and sometimes purely picturesque. Poets may use it for the lonely place from which a speaker surveys a troubled landscape or guards a private history. Its smallness matters: unlike a grand tower, a turret suggests an individual eye, a narrow room, and the precarious desire to see farther than ordinary walls allow.
Example
Example in poetry:
“From the turret, a single lamp watched the harbor all night”; A poet can place a speaker in a turret to create a feeling of isolation, height, and narrow vision; “The turret’s spiral stair taught my knees the grammar of ascent” uses the small tower as a structure for a poem about climbing; In a gothic lyric, a ruined turret can hold ravens, weather, and the last trace of a vanished household
Additional Notes
A turret is a small projecting tower, often positioned at a corner or attached to a larger structure. It can create associations of lookout, seclusion, fairy-tale romance, or defensive vigilance. Its elevated viewpoint may also shape a speaker’s emotional distance.
Also Known As
Stair Turret Tower
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