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.

After the death of my mother, 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.

My wife and I are simplifying our days. The server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the quieter life we want.

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.

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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Disjointed lyric

Form
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 lyric poem that rejects linear progression, using fragmentation, juxtaposition, or non-chronological sequencing to mirror psychological states.

Detailed Definition
Disjointed lyric describes poetry that deliberately fractures syntax, chronology, or perspective to convey psychological distress, cultural dislocation, or postmodern uncertainty; Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” and Anne Carson’s “The Glass Essay” use abrupt shifts and collage-like structures to mirror inner fragmentation.
Example
Example in poetry:
Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” shifts abruptly between circus act, Holocaust reference, and personal trauma; Ashbery’s “Paradoxes and Oxymorons” fractures syntax to mirror cognitive dissonance; Anne Carson’s “The Glass Essay” interweaves Brontë criticism with personal grief in disjointed lyric; Maggie Nelson’s “Bluets” uses numbered fragments to convey emotional instability
Additional Notes
Disjointed lyric uses fragmentation, non-linear thought, or abrupt shifts to convey psychological or social dislocation—hallmark of modernist and postmodern poetry (e.g., Eliot, Plath); requires reader to reconstruct meaning.
Also Known As
Fragmented lyric splintered song disjunctive verse fractured emotional utterance fractured verse Fragmented verse
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