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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Bracket

Architecture
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 projecting support that carries weight from above. In poetry, it can symbolize an aside, a burden, or a sustaining attachment.

Detailed Definition
A bracket is a projecting element, often carved or curved, that supports an overhanging shelf, roof, or cornice. Its visual role makes it a potent poetic image for the unnoticed thing that bears pressure: a parenthetical thought, a supporting hand, a secret promise beneath public display. A poet may also draw on the grammatical meaning of brackets, linking physical support to enclosed speech, interruption, qualification, and the fragile framework around an utterance.
Example
Example in poetry:
“A stone bracket bears the balcony’s weight, as I bear my father’s silence” uses the support as a metaphor for emotional burden; In a poem about a façade, brackets can be described as carved leaves or figures beneath an overhang; “The bracket under the eave gathers rain and shadow” shows how a small architectural detail can sharpen observation; A poet may use brackets in a visual poem to suggest parentheses supporting a phrase
Additional Notes
Bracket suggests both physical support and a parenthetical interruption. Use it for an aside that carries emotional weight while seeming secondary to the main statement.
Also Known As
Corbel Supporting Bracket
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