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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wane

Archaic Terms
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

To decrease gradually in size, strength, intensity, or importance; especially describes the moon's visible portion shrinking from full to new moon; suggests gradual decline or diminishment.

Detailed Definition
“Wane” conveys gradual decline—waning love, waning power. In poetry, it symbolizes impermanence. The term’s softness mirrors ebb. Poets use it to explore how all things diminish, where waning marks acceptance or loss, reinforcing themes of cycles, mortality, and the beauty of decrease in meditative and lyrical traditions.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The moon began to wane,” in a temporal lyric; In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 104: “To me, fair friend, you never can be old, / For as you were when first your eye I eyed, / Such seems your beauty still... / But though they change, you are the same, / And your sweet shadowed grace / Shall still be new, though moons shall wane and wax”; “Her hope waned with the year”; “The wane of power is swift”; “Wane not in faith, though night deepen”; The tide waned, leaving shells like memories.
Additional Notes
“Wane” describes gradual decline, especially lunar; in meditative poetry, “waning strength” or “waning love” mirrors celestial cycles, linking human frailty to cosmic rhythms of decrease and renewal.
Also Known As
decline diminish ebb languish
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