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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break concentration

Sound
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

The clustering of several pauses (caesuras or line breaks) in close succession to disrupt rhythm and create a halting, fragmented sonic texture.

Detailed Definition
break concentration refers to the poetic technique of focusing reader attention on a specific caesura, enjambment, or line break to heighten semantic ambiguity, emotional pause, or rhythmic surprise; by isolating the break as a site of meaning-making, poets like Emily Dickinson or William Carlos Williams transform silence and fragmentation into expressive tools.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” abrupt shifts in tone break concentration to mirror psychological fracture; T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” uses fragmented voices to disrupt reader focus intentionally; Claudia Rankine interrupts lyrical flow in “Citizen” with prose blocks that break concentration for critical reflection; In “Zong!,” M. NourbeSe Philip fractures syntax to break concentration and evoke historical trauma; Anne Carson’s “Autobiography of Red” uses white space and digression to destabilize attention.
Additional Notes
A stylistic effect where a line break or caesura forces the reader to focus intensely on the words or image immediately preceding or following the break; The pause concentrates the reader's attention on the isolated fragment.
Also Known As
Concentration break Thought-breach Break of focus Caesura cluster
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