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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whither

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

Whither means to what place or where, often used in questions about direction or fate.

Detailed Definition
Whither poses inquiries about destination or destiny in poetic dialogue and reflection. Its interrogative force appears in existential and romantic verse, questioning life's path or love's course. Poets cherish its archaic ring for dramatic effect and to connect with biblical phrasing, deepening themes of uncertainty and divine will.
Example
Example in poetry:
Whither shall I wander when the night falls?; Whither goes the soul when the body dies?; Whither the wind blows, there my love follows.; Whither the path leads, I shall bravely tread.; Whither the gods command, the hero goes.; Whither my heart calls, there I must be.
Additional Notes
Notes on whither: Interrogative "to what place," whither questions destiny or direction in existential and romantic verse. It connects with biblical phrasing. Students use for dramatic inquiry. Tip: fate or love themes. Related to "whence." Academic philosophical ties. Its ring deepens uncertainty and will, teaching how questions using archaic adverbs probe universal concerns while fitting metrical patterns in dialogue or reflection.
Other Meanings of “whither”
Also Known As
where whereto
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