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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blended form

Form
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 that combines elements of two or more established poetic forms

Detailed Definition
A blended form in poetry refers to a composition that intentionally merges two or more established poetic genres, structures, or traditions—such as combining sonnet conventions with free verse or integrating lyric and narrative modes—to create hybrid works that challenge categorical boundaries and expand expressive possibilities.
Example
Example in poetry:
Terrance Hayes’s “Golden Shovel” blends the sonnet form with Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool,” using each word of the original poem as an end-word in the new poem; Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen” merges lyric poetry, essay, and visual art into a blended form addressing racial microaggressions; Ocean Vuong’s “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong” combines epistolary address, lyric, and prose poetry; Anne Carson’s “The Glass Essay” fuses lyric poetry, literary criticism, and narrative prose.
Additional Notes
A blended form combines elements from two or more established poetic structures (e.g., sonnet + haiku, or elegy + ode); poets use this to innovate while honoring tradition—ensure transitions between forms feel intentional, not arbitrary.
Also Known As
Hybrid form fused structure composite verse intergeneric poem composite genre mixed form
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