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

Home › Glossary › Letter B

broadside

Printing
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 broadside is a single sheet of paper printed on one side, often used to publish a poem, ballad, announcement, or political message for public display or inexpensive distribution.

Detailed Definition
In poetry, a broadside is commonly a poem printed as a stand-alone sheet rather than in a book, magazine, or pamphlet. Historically, broadsides made poems and songs—especially ballads—cheap to print and easy to circulate in public places. Modern poetry broadsides are often designed as collectible art objects, combining typography, illustration, and letterpress Printing with a single poem.
Example
Example in poetry:
A nineteenth-century street vendor might sell a broadside containing the words to a popular ballad, printed in large type on one side of a sheet so buyers could read or sing it. A contemporary small press might issue a limited-edition broadside of a new poem, signed by the poet.
Additional Notes
Traditional ballad broadsides were often posted on walls, sold in streets, or read aloud in marketplaces. A broadside is usually printed on only one side; a printed sheet with text on both sides is more often called a broadsheet or leaflet, depending on its use. Modern poetry broadsides may be hand-set, letterpress printed, illustrated, or produced in numbered limited editions. Related terms include ballad sheet, chapbook, leaflet, and ephemera. Unlike a chapbook, which is a small bound or folded publication containing multiple pages, a broadside is normally a single unbound sheet.
Also Known As
Broadsheet Street Ballad Printed Proclamation Ballad Sheet Salvo Volley
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