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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bind

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

Bind means to tie, fasten, or hold things together; in poetry, it can suggest connection, constraint, or the linking of separate parts into a whole.

Detailed Definition
Literally, bind is the act of securing one thing to another. In poetry, it may describe the way rhyme, repetition, or metaphor holds a poem together, or how emotion and memory are tied into the text. The word is common in craft-based poetic language because it implies both joining and tension.
Example
Example in poetry:
A refrain can bind stanzas together, creating cohesion across a long poem, as in ballads; Rhyme schemes bind lines into couplets or quatrains, reinforcing the poem's structure; A shared central metaphor can bind an otherwise loosely structured free verse poem; In a sonnet sequence, recurring images bind individual poems into a unified narrative; A poet may bind two contrasting ideas together through a single extended metaphor, as metaphysical poets often did; Alliteration and assonance can bind words together sonically even without formal rhyme.
Additional Notes
Bind carries connotations of both connection and constraint, making it a productively ambiguous craft term for discussing poems about relationships, obligation, or formal structure; in prosody, binding often refers to how rhyme and meter tie lines together into a cohesive unit, while thematically it can describe emotional or familial ties that both support and restrict; students should consider the etymological link to "bond," which shares this double sense of connection and limitation, and instructors might use this term to explore how formal constraints in a poem can mirror thematic content about restriction or commitment.
Also Known As
tie secure fasten lace tie together Knot
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