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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Angle brackets

Notation
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

Symbols (< >) used in editorial or linguistic notation, rarely in poetic text but sometimes for annotation.

Detailed Definition
Angle brackets are primarily used in scholarly editions or linguistic transcriptions to enclose editorial insertions, hypothetical reconstructions, or phonetic notations; in poetry, they may frame meta-commentary, indicate omitted text, or signal performative cues in avant-garde works, though they rarely appear in canonical verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
Angle brackets < > are rarely used in traditional poetry but appear in digital or code poetry, e.g., “<love> not found”; In experimental typography, poets use < > to frame meta-commentary like “<this line is a lie>”; Some poets employ angle brackets to denote omitted or redacted text: “She said <classified> and walked away”; In generative poetry, <variable> might stand in for algorithmically inserted words; Contemporary poets use < > to simulate HTML tags as poetic devices, such as “<div class=‘grief’>”; In conceptual poetry, < > can enclose performative instructions like “<pause for three breaths>”.
Additional Notes
Angle brackets: Angle brackets (⟨ ⟩) in poetic notation often enclose editorial insertions, conjectural readings, or phonetic transcriptions in scholarly editions; they may also denote semantic or syntactic framing in linguistic analyses of verse—use them to distinguish hypothesized or non-original text without disrupting the poem’s visual integrity.
Also Known As
chevrons pointy brackets
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