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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Flowering close

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

A poem ending that culminates in elaborate or expansive expression

Detailed Definition
A poetically elaborate conclusion that employs rich imagery, elevated diction, or ornate language to create a sense of culmination and aesthetic completion. This technique provides satisfying closure through linguistic beauty and complexity, common in formal verse traditions where the ending represents the full flowering of themes and images developed throughout the poem, creating a memorable final impression that should feel earned through the composition's development rather than arbitrarily appended.
Example
Example in poetry:
Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 concludes with a flowering close: “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee”; In Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish,” the epiphany blooms into a “rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!”; Rumi’s ghazals often end with a divine flowering close merging lover and Beloved; Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” closes with expansive natural imagery that blossoms into belonging: “the world offers itself to your imagination”; In Derek Walcott’s “Love After Love,” the flowering close invites self-reunion: “Feast on your life”; Tracy K. Smith’s “The United States Welcomes You” ends with a chilling, ironic flowering close that subverts expectation.
Additional Notes
Provides sense of culmination and completion. Should feel earned through poem's development. Common in formal verse and odes. Can create memorable final impression.
Also Known As
Elaborate ending Ornate conclusion Decorated finale Baroque resolution Efflorescent Cadence
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