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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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dent

Craft Terms
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

Dent means to make a hollow mark or impression on a surface; in poetry, it can suggest a small wound, indentation, or the marking of memory.

Detailed Definition
Literally, a dent is a depression made by pressure or impact. In poetry, the term may appear in tactile or metaphorical language to suggest damage, trace, or the shaping force of experience. It belongs in craft terms because it points to material alteration and visible mark-making.
Example
Example in poetry:
A dent in a childhood toy can serve as a small but powerful image of time's damage in a memory poem; A poet may describe a dent in a car as evidence of an accident that reshapes the poem's narrative; Dents in armor appear in epic poetry as visible marks of battle and endurance; A poem about aging might describe dents in furniture as quiet witnesses to decades of family life; A dented photograph frame can symbolize imperfect but cherished memory; Poets sometimes use a dent in the earth, like a footprint, to mark a fleeting human presence.
Additional Notes
Dent suggests a small, often permanent mark left by impact or pressure, making it a useful term for discussing poems about memory, trauma, or the lasting effects of seemingly minor events; unlike more dramatic terms like shatter or crack, dent implies damage that is visible but not destructive, which makes it apt for poems exploring resilience or the way small hurts accumulate without breaking a person or object entirely; instructors might pair dent with chip and abrade to discuss a family of craft terms describing subtle, non-catastrophic damage.
Also Known As
indent dimple depress notch
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