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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Cornucopian verse

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

Poetry that celebrates abundance, fertility, and overflowing bounty, often mythologically inspired

Detailed Definition
Cornucopian verse celebrates abundance, fertility, and overflowing richness through lush imagery, expansive catalogs, and exuberant diction; drawing on classical and pastoral traditions, it often depicts natural bounty, artistic inspiration, or emotional plenitude, using syntactic generosity and sensory detail to evoke a world of inexhaustible generosity and vitality.
Example
Example in poetry:
Cornucopian verse: "Fields overflow with golden grain, / Orchards bend with fruit again, / Rivers run with honeyed wine, / And every vine bears clustered sign"; "Baskets burst with fig and pear, / Bees hum blessings in the air, / Lambs and calves in pastures play, / Night and day in sweet array"; "The earth gives more than we can hold— / Wheat, wine, wool, and stories told"; "From soil to sky, abundance sings: / Harvests, children, golden rings"; "No hand goes empty from this land, / Where blessings fall like summer sand."
Additional Notes
Cornucopian verse celebrates abundance through lush catalogs and sensory overflow; it counters minimalist trends—students can draw from Whitman or Neruda to practice generative listing; useful for exploring themes of gratitude, ecology, or artistic fertility without succumbing to excess for its own sake.
Also Known As
verse of abundance lush lyric overflowing stanza fertile composition Abundance
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