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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Viridian

Colours
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 rich blue-green, darker and cooler than leaf green, with a mineral clarity.

Detailed Definition
Viridian suggests deep foliage, oxidised copper, and water seen beneath a shaded bridge. Its mixture of blue and green makes it useful for poems where nature feels both living and remote, as in a forest that conceals a secret or a sea that refuses comfort. The colour can lend a line an atmosphere of disciplined beauty, cool patience, and submerged feeling.
Example
Example in poetry:
Viridian leaves shone with a cool green beneath the rain; The poem calls the river viridian where sunlight strikes its clear surface; A viridian cloak gives the forest spirit an otherworldly appearance; Viridian is a blue-leaning green, darker and cooler than ordinary leaf green.
Additional Notes
Viridian is a cool, saturated blue-green with a mineral or glasslike clarity. It differs from ordinary green through its blue influence and from teal through its often deeper, more transparent intensity. Poets may use it for seas, oxidized metal, feathers, shadows in foliage, or jewel-toned clothing. The color can suggest depth, strangeness, freshness, or transformation. Related terms include teal, turquoise, emerald, malachite, and sea green.
Also Known As
Viridian green Guignet's green
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