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

weather-bow

Nautical
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

The weather-bow is the forward part of a ship on the side facing the wind; seas breaking over it strike the vessel’s windward bow.

Detailed Definition
In Nautical language, weather means “windward,” or toward the direction from which the wind blows. A ship’s weather-bow is therefore the bow, or front section, on its windward side, where wind and waves often hit most forcefully. The term commonly appears in descriptions of storms, rough seas, and a vessel’s position relative to the wind.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “Forecastle Sailor or the Guardian Frigate,” the speaker recalls stormy weather: “The skies look’d quite pitchy and wayward, and the sea o’er our weather-bow broke” Here, the sea breaks over the ship’s windward bow, emphasizing the force of the northern gale and the dangerous conditions facing the vessel.
Additional Notes
Weather in this phrase does not mean atmospheric conditions generally; it means the side exposed to the wind. The opposite term is lee-bow, the forward side sheltered from the wind, or facing away from it. A related expression, on the weather bow, describes an object or vessel seen ahead and toward the windward side of a ship. The term combines weather, from the Nautical sense “windward,” with bow, meaning the front of a vessel.
Also Known As
Windward Bow Weather Side Wind-Facing Bow Bow Toward the Wind
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