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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Causality

Philosophy
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

Causality is the relationship between cause and effect, where one event brings about another in a necessary or predictable sequence.

Detailed Definition
Poetry often interrogates or subverts linear causality to explore fate, chance, or psychological depth. In modernist or postmodern verse, fragmented narratives challenge deterministic views, suggesting that human experience resists tidy cause-effect logic and embraces ambiguity.
Example
Example in poetry:
Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken" explores how a single choice (cause) leads to lifelong consequences (effect), though ironically questioning linear causality; Thomas Hardy’s "The Convergence of the Twain" links the Titanic’s fate to cosmic irony, challenging human notions of cause; Sylvia Plath’s "Daddy" traces psychological trauma from father to self as a causal chain; Wallace Stevens’s "The Idea of Order at Key West" examines how the singer’s voice causes the sea to "be" differently—questioning perceptual causality; in "Ozymandias," Percy Bysshe Shelley shows how time (cause) erodes even the mightiest empires (effect).
Additional Notes
Causality in poetry is often subverted to explore fate, chance, or psychological depth; classical verse (e.g., Greek tragedy) assumes causal order, but modernists (Eliot, Pound) fracture it to reflect trauma or entropy; useful for analyzing how narrative logic—or its absence—shapes meaning: does the poem imply necessity (“this had to happen”) or contingency (“this just happened”)?
Also Known As
Causal Relation Cause and Effect
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