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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Assembly plural

Concept
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 poetic mode that gathers multiple voices, perspectives, or elements into a collective whole

Detailed Definition
Assembly plural refers to a poetic technique or structural mode in which multiple voices, perspectives, or textual fragments are gathered into a collective whole, creating a polyphonic or choral effect that emphasizes communal experience over individual expression; this form often mirrors democratic or dialogic ideals, drawing from oral traditions, protest poetry, or collaborative writing practices where the "we" supersedes the "I."
Example
Example in poetry:
Multiple voices speaking as one collective “we” in a protest poem like Muriel Rukeyser’s “The Poem as Mask”; A choral poem where the Assembly plural emerges through overlapping lines in June Jordan’s “Poem for South African Women”; A communal declaration in Langston Hughes’s “Let America Be America Again,” where “we” includes marginalized groups; A collaborative poem written by a group of students, each contributing lines that blend into a unified plural voice.
Additional Notes
Assembly plural uses “we” to represent a collective identity or shared experience; it’s common in protest poetry, communal rituals, and political verse—distinguish it from a generic plural by its intentional solidarity and shared agency.
Also Known As
Collective plural Choral we Unified multitude Plural chorus collective number plural of assembly
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