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.

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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bibliographic poetry

Genre
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

Poetry inspired by or referencing books, libraries, or textuality.

Detailed Definition
bibliographic poetry is a meta-literary form that explicitly references, reworks, or structures itself around books, libraries, catalogues, or reading practices, often using footnotes, citations, indexes, or marginalia as poetic devices; such poetry interrogates authorship, textual authority, and the materiality of the book, with examples ranging from Jorge Luis Borges’s labyrinthine bibliographies to contemporary works that treat the library as both archive and imaginative space.
Example
Example in poetry:
Bibliographic poetry cites sources within the poem: Craig Dworkin’s “Fact” lists only bibliographic entries as poetry; Tan Lin’s “HEATH” uses footnotes and metadata as poetic material; contemporary digital poets embed DOIs or ISBNs as lyrical elements; bibliographic poetry critiques authorship and archival logic; it appears in conceptual writing where citation becomes content
Additional Notes
Poetry that references, interacts with, or is deeply concerned with books, libraries, or the act of writing and reading; Can be metapoetic, exploring the nature of textuality or literary history; May appear in dedications, prefaces, or as an ode to a text; Related to book-mimetic verse.
Also Known As
Textual poetry Bibliophilic verse Script-bound lyric Bibliopoem
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