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

Home › Glossary › Letter V

Vinous

Viniculture
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

Vinous describes anything related to wine, having wine-like qualities or characteristics.

Detailed Definition
Vinous evokes pervasiveness, saturation, and the adjective of wine in verse. It suggests that wine colors perception, that its qualities extend beyond the glass. Poets use it to describe mood, atmosphere, or the tint of memory. It reflects the cultural ubiquity of wine, and how its associations stain language, thought, and sensory experience.
Example
Example in poetry:
Vinous described the wine's character, and the poet wrote that vinous meant "full of wine's own voice"; He called vinous an adjective that speaks of richness, a quality that is deeply, authentically grape; In her tasting lexicon, vinous was the opposite of thin or watery, a full-bodied resonance on the palate; The poet compared vinous to the resonant line—a poetic phrase that carries the weight of its craft; She called it the wine-ness of wine, a self-referential attribute that celebrates the liquid itself
Additional Notes
Vinous is a descriptive adjective used to describe any characteristic, quality, or appearance that is reminiscent of wine, and it is often applied to flavors, aromas, or even colors in the context of wine tasting and writing; the term conveys a sense of authenticity, suggesting that a wine tastes genuinely like wine, rather than like fruit juice or a spirit, and it often implies complexity and character; in poetry, vinous can be employed metaphorically to evoke richness, fermentation, and the sensory depth of a wine-like experience, or to describe a poem's own "wine-ness"—its depth, age, and ability to intoxicate the reader, reminding students that many words in wine criticism carry both literal and figurative weight.
Also Known As
wine-like grapey bacchanalian
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