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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Drafting

Education
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

The process of making an initial version of a poem and developing it through subsequent versions. Drafts allow writers to discover ideas, language, structure, and sound before a poem is finished.

Detailed Definition
Drafting is a central stage of creative writing in which a poet turns observations, memories, research, or imagination into provisional lines. Early drafts may be loose, repetitive, or incomplete, because their purpose is exploration rather than perfection. Through multiple versions, writers test diction, imagery, line breaks, rhythm, voice, stanza arrangement, and point of view. Studying drafts can show students that accomplished poems are usually shaped by revision instead of appearing fully formed. Drafting appears in poetry education because it teaches persistence, risk taking, and the practical relationship between inspiration and craft.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet begins drafting by writing freely about a childhood memory without trying to perfect every line; Students draft three possible openings for a poem and choose the one with the strongest voice; In an early draft of a villanelle, a writer tests refrains before settling on the final repeated lines; A teacher reminds students that drafting is the stage for discovery, while editing can come later
Additional Notes
Drafting gives a poem material to revise; it is not a failed version of a finished work. Early drafts may prioritize discovery, image, voice, or structure, while later drafts test line breaks, pacing, titles, and sound. Save versions so that useful language is not lost and revision choices can be traced.
Also Known As
Composition First Draft Writing Manuscript Drafting Preliminary Writing
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