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.

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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Cyberpoetry style

Style
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 digitally informed style engaging with technology, networks, and virtual experience.

Detailed Definition
Cyberpoetry style incorporates themes of digital life, hypertext, and technological mediation, sometimes using interactive or nonlinear forms. It reflects changing modes of communication and identity. Poets use this style to examine how language and consciousness adapt within digital environments.
Example
Example in poetry:
Digital poems with hyperlinks and interactive text; Verse reflecting online identities and virtual spaces; Poems incorporating code or screen language; Poetry responding to digital culture
Additional Notes
Cyberpoetry style explores how digital life reshapes language, identity, and attention. It may incorporate screen vocabulary, glitches, hyperlinks, code-like formatting, or themes of networks, surveillance, and virtual selves. Students can discuss medium as message: even a printed cyberpoem may mimic scrolling, tabs, or notification rhythms. In practice, try constraint-based writing with digital artefacts: a poem built from error messages, autocorrect changes, or chat fragments. Consider the ethics of data and voice, and the aesthetics of fragmentation, speed, and distraction that technology encourages.
Also Known As
Digital Poetry Electronic Poetry E-Poetry
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