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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Coded tercet

Form
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 three-line stanza containing hidden messages, symbolic language, or encrypted meaning

Detailed Definition
Coded tercet is a three-line stanza containing hidden messages, symbolic language, or encrypted meanings beneath its surface text. While appearing as conventional tercet, it conceals secondary content accessible only through decryption, special knowledge, or careful interpretive work. The encoding may operate through acrostic patterns, symbolic imagery with coded referents, numerological significance, or linguistic manipulations. Coded tercets have served various purposes: communicating politically dangerous ideas, conveying private messages in semi-public poetry, transmitting esoteric knowledge, or creating puzzles for engaged readers. The form combines the tercet's compact elegance with cryptographic intrigue, rewarding close attention with revelation.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “Quantum Tercet” by Amy Catanzano, each tercet encodes quantum physics terminology within lyrical syntax, creating layered scientific-poetic meaning; Mez Breeze’s “Codework Tercets” use three-line units blending ASCII art, emoticons, and fragmented English to simulate digital consciousness; Stephanie Strickland’s “Ring Theory” employs tercets where each line corresponds to a mathematical ring operation rendered poetically; Jhave’s “ReRites” includes tercets generated by neural networks trained on canonical poetry, producing uncanny coded echoes; In “Syntax Tercet” by Hellen van Meene, lines mimic programming logic (if/then/else) while exploring emotional conditions.
Additional Notes
A Coded tercet hides layered or alternative meanings in a three-line stanza—may use metaphor, historical reference, or private symbolism to veil intent.
Also Known As
Encrypted triplet Ciphered three-line stanza Secret tercet Cryptic tercet
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