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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Cryptomorphic image

Imagery
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 hidden or doubled metaphor that simultaneously conceals and reveals.

Detailed Definition
Cryptomorphic image is a poetic symbol or metaphor that appears ordinary on the surface but conceals a deeper, often esoteric or encoded meaning accessible only through contextual knowledge, personal revelation, or interpretive decoding; such images function as poetic ciphers, inviting initiated readers into a layered reading experience, common in mystical, alchemical, or highly allusive poetry from Blake to contemporary hermetic writers.
Example
Example in poetry:
Cryptomorphic image appears in Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul selects her own Society,” where the soul is a veiled, hidden figure; In Plath’s “Lady Lazarus,” the speaker’s resurrection is encoded in circus imagery; Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” hides metaphysical inquiry in avian glimpses; T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” uses fragmented images (tarot, Thames) as cryptomorphic symbols; Contemporary poet Claudia Rankine encodes racial trauma in everyday objects in “Citizen”.
Additional Notes
Cryptomorphic image hides its meaning beneath surface description, requiring decoding; often used in allegorical or political poetry—pair with allusion or symbolic diction for layered reading.
Also Known As
Hidden image Concealed metaphor Latent figure Veiled imagery
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