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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Conditional mood

Device
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 grammatical and rhetorical mode in poetry using "if-then" constructions to explore hypothetical scenarios, consequences, or conditional truths.

Detailed Definition
The Conditional mood in poetry denotes verb constructions that express hypothetical, uncertain, or contingent actions or states—typically formed with “would,” “could,” or “might”—and serves as a powerful rhetorical and emotional tool for exploring possibility, regret, longing, or unrealized futures; by framing scenarios as dependent on unfulfilled conditions (“If I had known…”), poets create spaces of ambiguity and introspection, allowing readers to inhabit alternate realities or psychological thresholds, as seen in Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter”) or contemporary poems that use conditionals to navigate trauma, memory, or political speculation.
Example
Example in poetry:
Collage verse: Williams’ “Spring and All” juxtaposes clinical prose and lyric; M. NourbeSe Philip’s “Zong!” collages slave ship records; Original: “News headline + lullaby + grocery list = poem”
Additional Notes
Verb form expressing hypothetical or contrary-to-fact situations. "If I were" construction. Related to: subjunctive mood, grammatical mood. Creates speculative or wish-fulfilling tone.
Also Known As
subjunctive verse hypothetical structure Subjunctive mood
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