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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Volcanic Ash

Geology
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

Fine fragments of rock and glass thrown into the air during an eruption. It suggests aftermath, obscured vision, and fertile destruction.

Detailed Definition
Volcanic ash consists of tiny shards of rock, minerals, and volcanic glass blasted into the atmosphere during an eruption. It can darken daylight, settle over distant places, disrupt breathing, and bury fields, yet weathered ash may also enrich soil with minerals. This double nature makes it potent for poetry. Volcanic ash can figure grief that falls everywhere, a silence after explosion, or destruction whose long aftermath unexpectedly prepares the ground for future growth.
Example
Example in poetry:
Volcanic ash drifted over the village, turning roofs and gardens the color of mourning; A poet may use volcanic ash to show how disaster settles quietly after violence has ended; The speaker tastes volcanic ash in the wind and remembers the mountain’s sudden roar; In a renewal poem, volcanic ash enriches the soil, showing that destruction can become the ground for new growth
Additional Notes
Volcanic ash is not soft fireplace ash but abrasive particles of rock and glass. It can darken skies while later enriching soil, joining destruction to renewal.
Also Known As
Volcanic Dust
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