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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braid

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

Braid means to weave strands together into a plaited form; in poetry, it can suggest the interweaving of voices, themes, or images.

Detailed Definition
In its literal sense, braid describes the twisting together of strands into a single decorative or functional form. In poetry, it often names a compositional method in which distinct elements are entwined to create texture and continuity. It suits craft language because it conveys pattern, linkage, and skilled making.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may braid multiple narrative threads together, alternating stanzas between two storylines; Villanelles braid two refrains through the poem, weaving them together at the close; A poet writing about heritage might braid together English and an ancestral language within a single poem; Braided form in contemporary poetry interlaces lyric fragments with essayistic prose; A poet could braid together images of hair, rope, and river currents to unify a poem about lineage; In performance poetry, braiding of call-and-response lines creates a woven rhythmic texture.
Additional Notes
Braid is frequently used to describe braided or interwoven poetic forms, in which multiple narrative or thematic strands alternate throughout a poem, gaining resonance through their juxtaposition and eventual convergence; this technique is common in contemporary lyric essays and hybrid poetic forms, and instructors often distinguish braiding from simple juxtaposition by emphasizing the sustained, patterned alternation of distinct strands rather than a single contrast; braiding is also a useful metaphor for discussing multilingual or multicultural poetry, where different linguistic or cultural threads are interlaced within a single work.
Also Known As
plait interweave twine weave entwine interlace
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