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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ambient verse

Genre
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

Poetry creating atmospheric or mood-based experience rather than narrative

Detailed Definition
ambient verse: Contemporary poetry that emphasizes atmospheric quality, mood, and sensory immersion over narrative progression or explicit meaning, similar to ambient music's focus on texture and environment. This verse creates experiential spaces through sound patterns, imagery, and rhythm rather than conventional storytelling or argument. Ambient verse often employs repetition, fragmentation, and sonic layering to generate meditative or immersive effects. The form reflects modern experimental approaches that prioritize reader experience and emotional resonance over traditional poetic objectives like closure, clarity, or explicit meaning.
Example
Example in poetry:
Ambient verse privileges weather, light, texture, and sound so that mood arises before plot: “Low fog loosens over the harbor”; many imagist and haiku poems create ambient effects through precise environmental particulars rather than explanation; “Radiators tick; blue television light / settles on the unwashed cups” is ambient verse when the room’s atmosphere carries the emotional weight; A. R. Ammons and Mary Oliver often let landscapes become meditative environments, though their poems also include argument and speaker; ambient verse need not be tranquil: smoke, sirens, fluorescent hum, and heat can produce an anxious urban atmosphere
Additional Notes
Ambient verse focuses on creating atmospheric impression rather than explicit meaning. It emphasizes sound, mood, and sensory experience over narrative or logical progression, similar to ambient music's approach to composition.
Also Known As
Surrounding verse Atmospheric poetry Context poem Atmospheric stanza
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