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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Wraith

Supernatural
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 ghostly figure, often seen shortly before or after someone’s death. It suggests doom, fading life, and grief.

Detailed Definition
A wraith is a spectral form, sometimes understood as the ghost or death-image of a living person. Folklore often treats its appearance as an omen, especially when it is seen by someone far from the person it resembles. Poets use wraiths to create an atmosphere of foreknowledge and helplessness. A wraith can also embody a person diminished by suffering, so that the supernatural image becomes a way of describing exhaustion, trauma, or emotional disappearance.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet might call a fading memory “the wraith of my childhood home,” emphasizing its ghostly incompleteness; In a mourning poem, “her wraith crossed the snow at dusk” creates an image of a dead person seen only dimly; Wraith can describe something nonhuman as well as a ghost, as in “a wraith of smoke rose from the burnt field”; Using wraith instead of ghost often gives a line a thinner, more elusive, and less solid atmosphere
Additional Notes
A wraith is more than a generic ghost: it often appears as a pale double or dying presence. Poets use it for anticipatory grief, memory, and the sense that a person is already fading from the world.
Other Meanings of “Wraith”
Also Known As
Ghost Apparition
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