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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Venison

Food And Drink
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

Deer meat associated with hunting, forests, and ceremonial feasting. It can suggest wilderness, privilege, and the cost of sustenance.

Detailed Definition
Venison brings a poem into the uneasy meeting place of appetite and wildness. Served at a feast, it may evoke old halls, hunting customs, privilege, and the display of abundance; prepared simply, it can suggest survival and respect for what has been taken from the land. The deer itself carries associations of grace and vulnerability, so venison can introduce ethical tension into a meal. Poets may use it to examine hunger, violence, ritual, and humanity's changing relationship with the natural world.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Venison simmered in the iron pot while snow sealed the cabin door.”; Use venison to create a scene of hunting, winter, and shared sustenance.; “The venison’s dark richness reminded him that the forest had given and taken.”; Let venison introduce ethical tension between human hunger and the life of a deer.; Contrast elegant venison at a banquet with the animal’s graceful movement in the woods.; “We ate venison by firelight, thanking the silent hills for meat.”
Additional Notes
Venison evokes forests, hunting, seasonal ritual, and a meal gained through the death of a wild animal. It can introduce tension between feast and loss, luxury and necessity, or human appetite and nature. In historical or aristocratic settings, venison may also imply restricted game lands, status, and unequal access to abundance.
Also Known As
Deer Meat Game Meat
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