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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Decorated ending

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

A line ending enriched with ornamental language, imagery, or sound

Detailed Definition
A Decorated ending is a poetic line or stanza conclusion enriched with ornamental language, rhetorical flourish, or heightened imagery to create a resonant, memorable closure; this technique amplifies emotional impact and thematic emphasis, often using metaphor, alliteration, or syntactic inversion to lend ceremonial weight to the poem’s final moments.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” the final stanza ends with “Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades...” decorated with emotional and sonic flourish; In Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind,” the closing invocation “Be thou, Spirit fierce, / My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!” is a decorated ending; In Hopkins’s “The Windhover,” the final lines “My heart in hiding / Stirred for a bird,—the achieve of, the mastery of the thing!” offer a decorated, ecstatic close; In Neruda’s “Tonight I Can Write,” the last line “Love is so short, forgetting is so long” is a decorated ending through poignant simplicity.
Additional Notes
A Decorated ending uses ornate diction, rhetorical flourish, or emotional intensity to conclude a poem memorably; common in odes and elegies; should feel earned, not excessive—balance ornament with authenticity.
Also Known As
Ornate close embellished ending flourished finale rhetorical coda Decorated finale Ornate conclusion Ornate ending
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