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 W

Weald

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 wooded or formerly wooded upland region, especially in southeastern England. It suggests deep soils and old rural settlement.

Detailed Definition
The Weald is a broad historic landscape of clay, woodland, pasture, and small settlements, particularly associated with southeastern England. In poetry, the term can evoke enclosed lanes, oak shade, damp fields, and a countryside shaped by long habitation. Its layered history of forest, ironworking, farming, and hedgerows makes it useful for poems about continuity and alteration. Rather than offering dramatic peaks, the Weald provides a dense, inhabited texture in which memory seems rooted in soil and timber.
Example
Example in poetry:
The weald was thick with oak and beech, its narrow lanes green with moss; A weald, traditionally a wooded upland region, can give a poem an old, enclosed, distinctly English atmosphere; In a poem set in the Sussex Weald, the speaker may use ancient woods to suggest buried history and rural continuity; Deer moved silently through the weald, while the village bell sounded beyond the trees
Additional Notes
The Weald is historically a heavily wooded region of south-eastern England extending across parts of Kent, Sussex, Surrey, and Hampshire. The term derives from an Old English word connected with woodland, and older poetry or regional writing may use “weald” more generally with a sense of wooded country. Its literary atmosphere can involve ancient lanes, enclosed fields, deep woodland, farming, settlement, and continuity with the past. Capitalisation may indicate the specific region. Compare woodland, forest, downland, Sussex, Kent, ancient landscape, pastoral, coppice, clay country, and regional identity.
Also Known As
Woodland Forest
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