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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active participle construction

Device
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 grammatical structure using present participles to convey ongoing action or dynamic imagery

Detailed Definition
Active participle construction in poetry employs present participles (verbs ending in -ing) functioning as adjectives or modifiers to create a sense of ongoing action, fluidity, or simultaneity within a line or stanza; this syntactic device enhances rhythm, conveys immediacy, and often blurs temporal boundaries, as in “running through fields of memory” where “running” imbues the subject with continuous motion and psychological presence.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Walking through the ruins, she remembered her childhood” — the phrase “Walking through the ruins” is an active participle construction modifying “she”; “Singing softly, the child lulled the doll to sleep” uses “Singing softly” as an active participle phrase; “Running late, he missed the last train” demonstrates how an active participle (“Running late”) introduces context before the main clause; “Holding the letter with trembling hands, she read it for the third time” shows an active participle construction setting the scene
Additional Notes
Active participle construction uses present participles (e.g., "running," "singing") to create ongoing action or fluidity within a line or stanza; effective for conveying motion, simultaneity, or layered perception in descriptive or narrative poetry.
Also Known As
Present-Participle Phrase -ing Construction Verbal Flow Device Participial Stream -ing modifier Present participle phrase
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