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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Watershed

Landscape
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 ridge or high area dividing the flow of water into separate drainage systems. It can also suggest a decisive boundary.

Detailed Definition
A watershed is the elevated divide from which rain runs toward different rivers, seas, or valleys. In a poem, it offers both a literal high point and a natural metaphor for separation, choice, and consequence. A walker standing there may see weather moving in opposing directions and imagine lives similarly divided. Its quiet hydrological function can deepen a landscape poem, showing how small slopes determine distant courses and how unseen boundaries shape every stream below.
Example
Example in poetry:
From the watershed, rain falling on one side ran toward the western sea, while rain on the other began its journey east; A watershed can symbolize a decisive divide, especially when a poem considers choices or historical change; The speaker calls the year of departure a watershed, comparing it to a ridge where waters separate; Standing at the watershed, she hears two rivers beginning in opposite directions beneath the same storm
Additional Notes
A watershed is geographically the divide separating neighbouring drainage basins, often following high ground from which water flows in different directions. This physical branching gives rise to the common figurative meaning of a decisive turning point after which events develop differently. Poetry may use both senses simultaneously, particularly in poems about journeys, choices, history, or personal change. In some varieties of English, “watershed” can also mean the entire drainage area, so context matters. Compare ridge, divide, catchment, drainage basin, turning point, boundary, river system, decision, and transition.
Also Known As
Drainage Basin Catchment River Basin Water Parting
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