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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ablative phrase

Phrase
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 prepositional or case-based phrase derived from Latin grammar indicating means, manner, or separation

Detailed Definition
An ablative phrase is a noun phrase, often borrowed from Latin grammatical tradition, that functions adverbially to modify a verb by expressing circumstances such as time, manner, cause, or accompaniment; in English poetry, such phrases appear as compact, non-finite constructions (e.g., “with sorrow weighing,” “time having passed”) that enrich texture and imply complex relationships without full clauses.
Example
Example in poetry:
ablative phrase: "With weary steps, she climbed the hill"; "In silence, they watched the sun descend"; "By candlelight, he read the old letter"; "With broken wings, the bird still tried to fly"; "Through mist and rain, the path disappeared"; "In sorrow, she folded the empty coat."
Additional Notes
An ablative phrase functions as a compressed adverbial modifier, often derived from Latin models (e.g., “time having passed”); in English poetry, it adds sophistication and rhythmic variation—students should practice identifying and composing such phrases to enhance syntactic flexibility; it overlaps with grammatical ablative expression (12128) but emphasizes phrasal rather than clausal structure.
Also Known As
ablative absolute phrase circumstantial phrase Latin-style ablative adverbial ablative Ablatival expression
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