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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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assemble

Craft Terms
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

Assemble means to gather and fit parts together into a whole; in poetry, it can suggest the building of images, meanings, or forms from separate elements.

Detailed Definition
The literal meaning is the joining of individual pieces into a functioning structure. In poetry, assemble is useful for describing the process by which words, symbols, and sounds are brought into relation. It appears in craft terminology because poems are often imagined as made objects, carefully put together rather than simply poured out.
Example
Example in poetry:
A found poem assembles fragments of found text—newspaper clippings, letters, signs—into a new unified work; T.S. Eliot assembles disparate voices, quotations, and allusions in "The Waste Land" to create a fragmented modern epic; A collage poet assembles lines from multiple sources to build meaning through juxtaposition; A poet writing a crown of sonnets assembles individual sonnets into a larger interlocking sequence; In documentary poetics, a poet assembles archival material and testimony into verse form; A poet might assemble a series of short vignettes into a single long narrative poem, as in verse novels.
Additional Notes
Assemble is associated with collage and montage techniques in poetry, particularly found poetry, erasure, and documentary verse, where meaning arises from the arrangement of pre-existing materials rather than original composition alone; the term invites discussion of authorial intention versus curatorial selection, since assembling implies a poet's agency lies in choice and juxtaposition rather than invention; it is a useful term for teaching modernist and postmodernist techniques, especially in relation to poets like T.S. Eliot and later language poets, who treated the poem as a constructed object built from disparate linguistic materials.
Also Known As
put together construct join combine fabricate build compile gather
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