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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Two heads are better than one

Idiomatic Phrase
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 proverbial idiom emphasizing the benefits of collaboration and shared thinking, suggesting that combining perspectives leads to better solutions, creativity, and problem-solving than working alone.

Detailed Definition
Two heads are better than one means collaboration can produce better judgement, ideas, or solutions than solitary effort. In poetry, the idiom can support themes of friendship, marriage, craft, teaching, community, and shared problem-solving. It suggests that thinking is not always private; wisdom may emerge through dialogue. A poet may use it sincerely or ironically when two minds create confusion rather than clarity. The phrase is useful for exploring companionship, collective intelligence, and the social nature of understanding.
Example
Example in poetry:
A workshop poem might remind young writers that two heads are better than one when revising a difficult stanza; In a quest poem, two travellers solve the riddle because two heads are better than one; The proverb means cooperation can produce better judgement; A poet can use it for friendship and shared wisdom.
Additional Notes
Two heads are better than one expresses the value of collaboration, shared judgement, and collective intelligence. In poetry, it can appear in friendship, marriage, teaching, craft, political organising, or problem-solving scenes. The idiom treats thought as something strengthened by companionship. Students should ask when collaboration deepens understanding and when too many voices create confusion. It pairs well with dialogue, joined hands, workshops, councils, and co-authored effort.
Also Known As
collaboration
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