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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fissure pattern

Structure
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

An organizational pattern featuring gaps, breaks, or deliberate discontinuities

Detailed Definition
Fissure pattern describes a structural or textural feature in poetry where cracks, gaps, or splits create deliberate discontinuities in the poem's surface unity, suggesting fracture or rupture. This technique involves introducing breaks in syntax, imagery, logic, or typography that create visible divisions within the text. Fissure patterns can represent psychological fragmentation, social rupture, linguistic inadequacy, or the limits of coherence, making discontinuity itself a meaningful element. These patterns engage readers in negotiating gaps and reconstructing meaning across deliberate breaks in continuity.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel,” fissures in the psyche mirror physical landscape ruptures: “And I / Am the arrow, / The dew that flies / Suicidal”; Wallace Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West” uses fissure patterns between sea and song to explore perception’s limits; In Ocean Vuong’s “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong,” emotional fissures appear through line breaks: “Ocean, don’t be afraid. / The end of the road is so far ahead”; M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! employs typographical fissures to fracture colonial narrative continuity; In H.D.’s “Eurydice,” mythic fissures split voice and silence: “At least I have left the flowers of hell”; Contemporary poet Solmaz Sharif uses bureaucratic redaction as fissure pattern in “Look,” revealing gaps in official language.
Additional Notes
Fissure pattern introduces deliberate breaks or gaps in syntax, form, or logic—suggests psychological fracture, historical rupture, or unresolved tension.
Also Known As
Fracture motif Cracked pattern Split-line design Ruptured texture Craquelure
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