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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Closing sentiment

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

The emotional attitude or feeling expressed at a poem's conclusion.

Detailed Definition
The emotional quality, philosophical stance, or attitudinal tone concluding a poem, representing the final feeling or perspective left with readers. Less intellectually focused than concluding moral and more emotionally centered, the closing sentiment establishes the poem's ultimate emotional register. Yeats's poems frequently end with powerful sentiments that resonate beyond literal meaning, as in "A terrible beauty is born." The closing sentiment can confirm, shift, or complicate the emotional trajectory established earlier, providing emotional resolution or productive ambiguity that continues reverberating after reading.
Example
Example in poetry:
The final judgment or reflection concluding a poem; Yeats ending "The Second Coming" with "And what rough beast...slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"; Closing lines that sum up emotional or philosophical stance; The terminal assessment or observation that caps the poem's argument
Additional Notes
The emotional or philosophical stance concluding a poem. Less intellectual than concluding moral, more feeling-based. The final emotional note left with the reader. Yeats's poems often end with powerful closing sentiments that resonate beyond their literal meaning. Can shift or confirm the poem's emotional trajectory.
Also Known As
final emotion concluding feeling terminal mood closing attitude Epithonema
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