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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engrave

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

Engrave means to cut or carve a design or text into a surface; in poetry, it can suggest making language lasting, precise, or deeply marked.

Detailed Definition
In literal craft, engrave refers to incising lines into metal, wood, stone, or another hard surface. In poetry, the word often carries connotations of permanence, memory, and exactness, as if words were cut into the mind or the page. It belongs in craft terms because it links artistic making with physical mark-making.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may compare the act of writing to engraving, suggesting permanence and careful labor; Epitaphs are literally engraved, and poets often play with this literal and figurative meaning in elegy; A poem about memory might describe an experience as engraved on the heart or mind; Engraved wedding rings appear in love poems as symbols of lasting commitment; A poet describing an old book might note engraved initials as traces of a previous owner's life; In ekphrastic poems about prints or etchings, engraving becomes both subject and metaphor for artistic precision.
Additional Notes
Engrave emphasizes permanence and deliberate, careful inscription, often used metaphorically to describe language or memory that becomes lasting and unchangeable; the term is closely associated with epitaphs and monumental inscriptions, and instructors might discuss how poets play with the literal practice of engraving stone alongside figurative claims about experiences being engraved on the heart or mind, drawing attention to the tension between physical and emotional permanence; this term pairs well with incise and chisel in discussions of craft terms related to carving and lasting marks.
Also Known As
carve etch inscribe incise
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