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

Home › Glossary › Letter D

denunciation

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

A forceful poetic condemnation of sin, injustice, or corruption, typically with moral urgency

Detailed Definition
Denunciation in poetry is the rhetorical act of openly condemning vice, tyranny, or hypocrisy through impassioned verse; it employs sharp diction, moral absolutism, and often apostrophe to directly address the condemned, functioning as both ethical witness and call to action, exemplified in satires by Juvenal or political poems by Auden.
Example
Example in poetry:
Isaiah 3: “The Lord will enter into judgment / with the elders and princes of his people”; Jeremiah 22: “Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness”; Milton’s “On the Late Massacre in Piedmont” condemns: “Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints”; Blake’s “The Garden of Love” denounces: “And Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, / And binding with briars my joys & desires”
Additional Notes
Denunciation is a forceful poetic condemnation, often invoking divine or ethical authority; common in prophetic and satirical poetry; most powerful when paired with vivid imagery; avoid ranting by using measured rhythm and concrete examples
Also Known As
Condemnation censure invective moral denunciation Jeremiad Objurgation
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