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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Concise literary form

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 genre or structure characterized by brevity and economy of expression

Detailed Definition
Concise literary form refers to any poetic structure that prioritizes economy of language, where every word serves multiple functions—sound, sense, rhythm—and extraneous elements are rigorously excised. Rooted in traditions like the haiku, epigram, and Imagist poem, this aesthetic values implication over exposition, trusting readers to infer meaning from carefully chosen images and silences. In Western poetry, it counters Romantic and Victorian verbosity, aligning with modernist principles of “no ideas but in things.” Students of concise forms learn that brevity intensifies emotional impact, but only when precision and authenticity anchor the minimalism, preventing obscurity or emptiness.
Example
Example in poetry:
Haiku: seventeen syllables capture a season; Epigram: one sharp line cuts deep; Limerick: five lines, humor complete; Sonnet: fourteen lines, love or thought refined; Tanka: thirty-one syllables, heart laid bare
Additional Notes
Concise literary forms prioritize economy: every word must serve multiple functions (sound, sense, rhythm). Examples include haiku, epigrams, and micropoetry. This aesthetic values implication over exposition and often draws from Eastern traditions. In Western contexts, it counters Romantic excess. Students should practice cutting 50% of a draft to find the poem’s core. Related concepts: “less is more,” negative capability, and imagism.
Also Known As
compact poetic structure brief formal verse economical stanzaic mode abbreviated form
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