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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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Aporic resolution

Structure
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’s ending constructed around irresolvable contradiction or doubt.

Detailed Definition
Aporic resolution describes a poetic conclusion that embraces uncertainty, contradiction, or unresolved tension rather than offering closure; derived from the Greek term for “impasse,” this approach reflects postmodern and philosophical skepticism by leaving key questions open, inviting the reader to dwell in ambiguity—common in the work of poets like Wallace Stevens or Jorie Graham, where the poem ends not with an answer but with a deeper inquiry.
Example
Example in poetry:
An aporic resolution appears in John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” ending with the unresolved paradox: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know”; In Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man,” the poem dissolves into silence rather than answer; Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—” concludes with perceptual uncertainty: “I could not see to see”; T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” ends without resolution: “Till human voices wake us, and we drown”; In “Ars Poetica,” Archibald MacLeish asserts “A poem should not mean / But be,” embracing aporia.
Additional Notes
Aporic resolution ends a poem with deliberate uncertainty or unresolved tension rather than closure; aligns with postmodern or existential aesthetics—avoid tidy conclusions to invite reader interpretation.
Also Known As
Puzzle resolution Paradox solution Aporetic answer
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