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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consolation celebration

Genre
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 poem that honors a subject while also offering comfort to those affected by loss; it blends eulogy with consolation, acknowledging grief while affirming hope, memory, or spiritual solace.

Detailed Definition
Consolation celebration is a poetic genre that combines commemorative praise with comforting intent, honoring a person, event, or loss while simultaneously providing solace to those affected. This hybrid form balances the celebratory elevation typical of odes or commemorative verse with the consoling function of elegies or comfort poems. Such poems acknowledge grief or difficulty while emphasizing what deserves celebration, whether qualities of the deceased, shared memories, or ongoing legacies. The dual purpose creates a complex emotional register that validates mourning while encouraging gratitude and appreciation.
Example
Example in poetry:
Consolation celebration: Poems celebrating deceased loved ones to ease grief; Elegies that honor life rather than mourn death; Whitman's Lincoln elegies finding meaning in loss; Verses transforming sorrow into tribute
Additional Notes
consolation celebration|Poems that transform grief or hardship into a celebration of life, memory, or endurance; often blends elegiac tones with uplifting imagery.
Also Known As
joyous solace uplifting requiem hopeful tribute Consolation ode
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