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

Wedding Band

Jewellery
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 plain or embellished ring exchanged during marriage; symbolizes eternal commitment, unity, and marital vows in poetry.

Detailed Definition
In poetry, a wedding band can embody devotion, social ritual, and the complicated endurance of partnership. Its plain circle often contrasts with the depth of the promise it represents. A band may shine with new commitment, bear scratches from years of use, or lie unworn after separation or death. Poets can use it to explore fidelity, expectation, domestic history, and the gap between vow and lived experience.
Example
Example in poetry:
A wedding band commonly symbolizes marriage, fidelity, and the hope of lasting union; “Their wedding bands flashed briefly as they reached for the same door”; In an elegy, a widow touching a wedding band can express continuing love without stating it directly; A poet may contrast the smooth circle of a wedding band with the roughness of a difficult marriage; “The band was bright, but years had worn the promise thin” creates tension between object and relationship; A wedding band removed or left behind can serve as a concise image of separation or loss
Additional Notes
A wedding band is traditionally exchanged during marriage vows and worn as a visible sign of commitment. Its plain circular shape can symbolize fidelity, continuity, partnership, or loss.
Also Known As
Wedding Ring Marriage Band
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