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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Van

Transport
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

An enclosed road vehicle for carrying people or goods. It can suggest work, migration, domestic travel, or hidden cargo.

Detailed Definition
A van is an enclosed motor vehicle used for transporting passengers, equipment, deliveries, or household belongings. In poetry, it may appear as a tradesperson's vehicle, a family's packed means of escape, or a plain white shape moving through dawn streets. Its blank panels can imply anonymity or secrecy, while its loaded interior holds the material evidence of work and change. A van often represents practical travel: not glamour, but the carrying of lives, tools, and necessities from place to place.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The van smelled of wet coats, oranges, and the long road home” turns an ordinary vehicle into a container for family memory; A van can suggest a touring band, a school trip, or a crowded household on the move; “We slept in the van while the highway unspooled beneath us” uses travel to convey uncertainty and endurance; In a contemporary poem, a delivery van may represent invisible work passing through a neighborhood
Additional Notes
A van is an ordinary, enclosed vehicle that can imply work routes, family travel, moving house, or concealed goods. Its plainness is useful in contemporary poems, where mundane transport can reveal private pressures.
Other Meanings of “Van”
Also Known As
Cargo Van Panel Van
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