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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Yellow

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

Cowardly, jealous, or morally suspect, beyond its literal colour meaning.

Detailed Definition
In archaic poetry, yellow frequently symbolises cowardice, jealousy, or sickness of spirit rather than mere colour. Poets drew on cultural associations linking yellow with bile, fear, or decay to convey emotional states. Its use allowed writers to compress moral judgement into a single adjective. The term appears in moral, satirical, and dramatic verse, demonstrating how colour symbolism enriched poetic meaning and emotional resonance.
Example
Example in poetry:
A chivalric poem condemns fear: “Yellow hearts shrink back when trumpets sound”; Shakespeare associates yellow with jealousy and cowardice in several plays; A moral lyric may say, “Yellow envy eats the marrow of the soul”; In allegory, “Yellow cloaked the traitor’s smile, betraying fear within.”
Additional Notes
Yellow carries a rich network of symbolic meanings in archaic poetry, extending beyond colour to moral and emotional states. Linked historically to bile and humoral theory, it often signifies cowardice, jealousy, or corruption. Students should consider whether yellow is applied to characters, objects, or emotions, as each context shapes interpretation. The term frequently appears in moral and dramatic verse to compress judgement into a single adjective. Understanding its symbolic weight is essential for accurate poetic analysis.
Also Known As
Cowardly Jealous Craven Sallow
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