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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Ephelis

Device
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 small poetic blemish, akin to a minor imperfection, intentionally left

Detailed Definition
Ephelis (plural: ephelides) is a prosodic term for an extrametrical, unstressed syllable added to a line’s end, especially in Greek and Latin verse; it functions like a feminine ending in English, softening closure without disrupting the core metrical pattern.
Example
Example in poetry:
Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” uses ephelides (interjections): “How dreary—to be—Somebody!”; Shakespeare’s Sonnet 147: “For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, / Who art as black as hell, as dark as night”—the exclamation is implied through contrast; John Donne’s “The Sun Rising”: “Busy old fool, unruly Sun”—the vocative acts as ephelis; Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus”: “Herr God, Herr Lucifer / Beware”—interjections heighten drama; Lucille Clifton’s “miss rosie”: “you wet brown bag of a woman”—the descriptor functions as emphatic ephelis; Frank O’Hara’s “Having a Coke with You” uses casual interjections (“and wow”) as modern ephelides.
Additional Notes
Short lyric poem or brief interlude. Greek term meaning "upon the song." Less common than related forms. Modern use rare. Compare: fragment, lyric interlude.
Also Known As
Brief lyric Short poem Minimal verse Compact composition
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