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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Circular narrative

Structure
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

Poem that ends where it began, creating continuous narrative loop

Detailed Definition
Circular narrative in poetry describes a structural technique wherein the poem begins and ends with similar or identical imagery, phrasing, or thematic elements, creating a loop-like progression that suggests cyclical time, eternal recurrence, or unresolved emotional states; rather than advancing linearly toward resolution, the poem returns to its origin, reinforcing motifs of inevitability, memory, or ritual, as seen in T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” (“In my beginning is my end”) or in traditional ballads where seasonal or mythic cycles frame human experience within natural or cosmic repetition.
Example
Example in poetry:
Circular narrative: Ending returns to beginning: “I wake where I slept—same dream, same dread” (original); Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” loops from “stately pleasure-dome” to “damsel with a dulcimer”; Folk ballads like “The Unquiet Grave” close the death-life cycle
Additional Notes
Story structure that ends where it begins or loops back cyclically. Creates thematic unity and emphasizes eternal return. Related to: frame narrative, circular composition. Effective for meditative poetry.
Also Known As
loop narrative cyclical structure
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