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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Fallow

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

Fallow describes a period when a poetic subject or draft is deliberately left untouched so it can regain fertility.

Detailed Definition
A fallow interval is not abandonment but a chosen pause in which conscious problem-solving gives way to memory and unconscious association. Afterward, a poet may see that a repeated image has become false, or notice a stronger opening that was hidden by effort. Fallow time is especially useful for autobiographical work, where emotional proximity can distort judgment. Returning to a rested draft often produces quieter decisions: a cut, a changed verb, or a new silence rather than a wholesale rewrite.
Example
Example in poetry:
Fallow land is left uncultivated, making fallow a strong metaphor for rest or creative silence; “Her notebook lay fallow through winter” presents inactivity as a season rather than a failure; A poet may return from a fallow period with renewed images and energy; A poem can contrast fallow fields with crowded cities to explore rest, neglect, or potential.
Additional Notes
Fallow describes a purposeful period of leaving a subject or draft alone. During this pause, the poet may gather new experiences, read widely, or attend to other concerns instead of forcing production. Fallow time can restore curiosity and expose which parts of a poem still matter. It differs from avoidance when the pause is conscious and followed by a planned return, rereading, or fresh attempt.
Other Meanings of “Fallow”
Also Known As
Idle Uncultivated
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