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

Vistula

River
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

Poland’s longest river, flowing from the Carpathians through Warsaw and Gdańsk to the Baltic Sea.

Detailed Definition
The Vistula is a national symbol in Polish poetry, representing continuity, resilience, and cultural memory. Poets like Czesław Miłosz and Adam Zagajewski invoke it to meditate on history’s wounds, especially wartime destruction and exile. Its course through key cities makes it a living archive of Polish identity and collective trauma.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Polish Romanticism, Vistula (Wisła) embodies national soul and partitioned sorrow; Czesław Miłosz invokes Vistula as witness to Warsaw’s destruction and rebirth; Eco-poets decry pollution from Kraków and industrial south; Regional verse describes Vistula’s delta (Żuławy) as fragile lowland ecosystem; Contemporary poems explore Vistula as migrant route and climate frontline; The river appears in Jewish-Polish poetry as site of memory and loss.
Additional Notes
The Vistula—Poland’s national river—flows from Tatra Mountains through Warsaw to Gdańsk; in Romantic poetry, it embodies partitioned sorrow; Miłosz and others treat it as witness to war and rebirth; today, it faces pollution and climate threats, making it central to poems on memory, resilience, and Central European identity.
Also Known As
Vistula River Wisła
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