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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compile

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

Compile means to gather and arrange materials into one collected work; in poetry, it can suggest the assembling of images, voices, or fragments into a poem.

Detailed Definition
In literal use, compile refers to collecting items into an ordered whole. In poetry, it is apt for works that build meaning from fragments, quotations, or layered impressions. The term suits craft language because it emphasizes selection, arrangement, and the deliberate making of a finished form.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet compiling an anthology of found text creates new meaning through selection and arrangement; Erasure poets compile the surviving words from a source text into an entirely new poem; A poet may compile fragments of overheard speech into a single collage-style piece; In documentary poetry, testimonies are compiled into verse to preserve collective memory; A poet writing a long sequence might compile individual short poems into a unified book-length work; Anthologists compile poems thematically, shaping how readers encounter a poet's body of work.
Additional Notes
Compile is closely related to assemble and gather, but carries a slightly more editorial or archival connotation, often used to describe the work of anthologists, editors, or poets working with found or historical material; the term is particularly relevant to discussions of documentary poetics, where poets compile testimonies, archival records, or historical documents into verse form, raising questions about authorship, curation, and the ethics of representing others' words; instructors might use this term to discuss how compilation itself can be a creative act, shaping meaning through selection and arrangement rather than original composition.
Also Known As
assemble gather collect put together
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