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

Home › Glossary › Letter C

conditional voice

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

Use of conditional grammatical constructions to express hypothetical or uncertain states

Detailed Definition
Conditional voice employs grammatical constructions such as “if,” “were,” or “would” to explore hypothetical scenarios, unrealized possibilities, regrets, or imagined futures. In poetry, it creates psychological depth by revealing a speaker’s desires, fears, or alternate realities, often heightening emotional tension through uncertainty. For example, “If I should die before I wake…” introduces mortality as a contemplative premise. The conditional frequently pairs with the subjunctive mood and requires careful tense alignment (e.g., past perfect in “if” clauses). It is especially effective in elegies, love poems, and meditations on fate, where the unrealized becomes a space for reflection or longing.
Example
Example in poetry:
If I should die before I wake, / I pray the Lord my soul to take; / But if I live to see the sun, / Then let my work for good be done; Were I to choose my final view, / It would be mountains, not the sea; / But since I cannot choose my end, / I’ll walk the path that’s set for me; Should time allow, I’d write you more— / But clocks are strict, and love unsure; / If rain should fall upon your grave, / Know I sent clouds from where I stay
Additional Notes
Conditional voice uses “if,” “were,” or “would” to explore hypotheticals, regrets, or possibilities. It creates psychological depth by revealing desires, fears, or alternate realities. Common in elegies (“If only I had known…”) and love poems (“Were I to choose…”). Students should note tense alignment (e.g., past perfect in “if” clauses) and how conditionals can delay resolution, sustaining tension. Compare with subjunctive mood in other languages.
Also Known As
subjunctive lyric hypothetical tone contingent expression Hypothetical mood Subjunctive mode Hypothetical mode
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