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.

After the death of my mother, 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.

My wife and I are simplifying our days. The server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the quieter life we want.

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.

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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unawares

Archaic Terms
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

Unawares means without being aware or conscious of something; unexpectedly.

Detailed Definition
The term 'unawares' is an archaic way of expressing a lack of awareness or consciousness about an event or situation. In literature, it often conveys a sense of surprise or sudden realization. In the poem, the speaker describes how he unexpectedly finds himself swimming among seals, highlighting the dreamlike and spontaneous nature of his experience.
Example
Example in poetry:
Until I stumbled, unawares sudden; enhanced: "Stumbled, unawares, into revelation"; Wordsworth: "Unawares by joy"; contemporary: "Unawares epiphany"; educational: "Unawares unexpectedly in narrative"; "Grace arrives unawares."
Additional Notes
The word 'unawares' captures the suddenness of the speaker's transition from watching to participating in the icy scene.; Found in the poem, The Ice Cart by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
Also Known As
unexpectedly by surprise unannounced without warning
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