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.

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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Twelfth Night

Time And Calendar
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

The evening of 5 January, traditionally closing the Christmas season. It is linked with revelry, disguise, reversal, and festive disorder.

Detailed Definition
Twelfth Night is the final evening of the traditional twelve days of Christmas, immediately before Epiphany. Historic customs included cakes, games, masks, and temporary reversals of social roles, giving the occasion a lively association with misrule and disguise. In poetry, it can mark the last flare of festivity before ordinary winter resumes. Its theatrical quality makes it useful for poems about identity, inversion, comic confusion, and the fading of holiday enchantment.
Example
Example in poetry:
Twelfth Night marks the festive close of the Christmas season and can suggest an ending to holiday enchantment; Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night uses the title’s festive associations to support disguises, music, and mistaken identities; “On Twelfth Night, we took the last green bough from the door” turns a calendar custom into an image of departure; A poet may use Twelfth Night to show revelry giving way to ordinary winter life
Additional Notes
Twelfth Night traditionally ends Christmas festivities and precedes Epiphany. Shakespeare’s play uses its associations of disguise, misrule, comic confusion, and social reversal.
Other Meanings of “Twelfth Night”
Also Known As
Eve of Epiphany
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