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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Condensed celebratory poem

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 compact poem expressing fervent praise, admiration, or exaltation, often directed toward a person, event, or ideal.

Detailed Definition
A brief poem celebrating victory, achievement, joy, or other occasions for praise, typically under fifteen lines, that maintains the ceremonial function and elevated tone of traditional celebratory verse while accommodating contemporary preferences for compression. Such poems serve occasional purposes for commemorations, dedications, or public celebrations, distilling the essence of triumph or joy into concentrated expression that can be easily shared, memorized, or inscribed in ceremonial contexts.
Example
Example in poetry:
Condensed celebratory poem distills joy into brief form: Sappho’s Fragment 31 (“He seems to me equal to the gods”); Neruda’s “Ode to My Socks” praises humble joy; Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” offers affirming brevity; Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market” celebrates abundance; contemporary examples include Ross Gay’s “Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude” excerpts.
Additional Notes
Can commemorate victories, achievements, or joyful occasions. Brief form suits modern attention spans while maintaining ceremonial function. Often occasional poetry.
Also Known As
Brief praise poem Short victory ode Minimal celebration Compressed triumph verse Elliptical ode
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