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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fragmentary verse line

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 broken or incomplete line designed to emphasize disjunction or incompleteness

Detailed Definition
A fragmentary verse line is an individual line of poetry that appears syntactically or semantically incomplete—lacking a subject, verb, or clear referent—yet functions poetically through implication, suggestion, or contextual resonance; such lines often appear in modernist or postmodern verse to evoke psychological fragmentation or linguistic uncertainty.
Example
Example in poetry:
Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro”: “Petals on a wet, black bough” is a fragmentary verse line; H.D.’s “Oread” uses fragments for mythic intensity (“Whirl up, sea”); fragmentary verse line implies more than it states; contemporary poet Anne Carson writes “Brick fragments. A bird.” in “Nox” for elegiac minimalism; this technique conveys trauma, memory, or epiphany through incompleteness; it challenges syntactic norms.
Additional Notes
fragmentary verse line: A line of poetry that is notably short or appears deliberately incomplete, often used for dramatic effect, emphasis, or to mimic halting speech; related to minimalism in poetry.
Also Known As
Fragmentary line broken verse line incomplete poetic unit Ashbery line
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