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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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anatomical praise poem

Form
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 poem that praises various aspects of the human body in detailed catalog form

Detailed Definition
Anatomical praise poem celebrates the beloved's body through systematic description of physical features, typically proceeding from head to feet or focusing on specific body parts. This tradition, prominent in Renaissance blazon poetry and various cultural love poetry traditions, uses metaphor and hyperbole to idealize physical beauty. Anatomical praise poems balance sensual appreciation with conventional imagery, cataloging bodily features while creating cumulative effects of admiration and desire through detailed inventory.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Yoruba praise poetry (oríkì), anatomical praise poems detail body parts to honor individuals: “Your eyes are stars that guide the lost”; medieval Arabic wasf poems describe the beloved’s anatomy in erotic detail; contemporary poet Safia Elhillo uses anatomical praise to explore diasporic identity; the form appears in hip-hop boasts (“My hands built kingdoms”) as modern anatomical praise; anatomical praise poems link physicality to virtue, power, or beauty
Additional Notes
anatomical praise poem is a specialized form of praise poem (or blason) that focuses on detailed, often highly stylized and complimentary descriptions of the various parts of the human body, frequently of a beloved person.
Also Known As
Body-praise hymn Anatomical encomium Corporeal celebration poem Blason
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