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 C

channel

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

Channel means to guide or direct something along a chosen course; in poetry, it can suggest the movement of thought, feeling, or imagery through a shaped form.

Detailed Definition
In literal use, channel describes a passage or route that directs flow. In poetry, it is often metaphorical, referring to the way a poet shapes experience into language or directs a poem’s energy. It fits craft language because it implies purposeful shaping and controlled movement.
Example
Example in poetry:
A river channel can serve as a controlling metaphor for the flow of memory or time in a poem; A poet may channel grief into formal structure, using strict meter to contain overwhelming emotion; In dramatic monologue, the poet channels the voice of a historical or invented persona; A poem about irrigation or drought might use channel imagery to explore control over natural resources; A poet channels ancestral voices through invocation, a common device in epic poetry; Sound can be channeled through repeated consonants to direct the reader's ear toward a key word.
Additional Notes
Channel is a versatile craft term describing both the physical guiding of water or energy and the more abstract act of directing thought, emotion, or artistic inspiration through a chosen form; in discussions of persona and voice, poets are often said to "channel" a historical figure, ancestor, or archetype, drawing a connection between poetic composition and spiritual or mediumistic practice; the term is also useful in discussions of formal constraint, since a fixed poetic form can be understood as channeling otherwise unruly emotional content into a controlled, directed course.
Also Known As
groove flute cut groove rout furrow sound canal trough
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