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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Vestibule

Architecture
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 small entrance hall leading into a larger interior. Poetically, it can represent anticipation, transition, or the first chamber of experience.

Detailed Definition
A vestibule is an antechamber or entrance space that prepares a visitor for the rooms beyond. It is neither fully outside nor fully within, and that unsettled position gives it strong metaphorical value. A poem may describe a vestibule of sleep, grief, adulthood, or death, where the speaker pauses before crossing into an altered state. Its modest scale also reminds readers that thresholds have interiors of their own: places for hesitation, greeting, gathering oneself, and listening for what lies ahead.
Example
Example in poetry:
“In the vestibule, snow melted from our boots” uses the entrance hall to mark movement from the cold outdoors into shelter; A poet might describe emotional hesitation with “I stood in the vestibule of forgiveness, unable to enter”; “The hospital vestibule smelled of wet coats and antiseptic” grounds a difficult scene in a precise transitional space; “Morning waited in the vestibule, pale behind the glass doors” personifies dawn as something poised to enter
Additional Notes
A vestibule is a small entrance room that prepares visitors for a larger interior space. In poetic metaphor, it may represent hesitation, beginning, initiation, or the brief pause before a significant encounter. Its scale matters: unlike a grand hall, it is transitional and often intimate, making it apt for anticipation or uncertainty.
Also Known As
Entrance Hall Anteroom Lobby Foyer
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