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.

After the death of my mother, 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.

My wife and I are simplifying our days. The server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the quieter life we want.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the 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.

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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Fragmented geography poem

Form
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 shaped by fragmented spatial arrangement resembling landscapes or geography

Detailed Definition
A fragmented geography poem is a lyric or narrative poem that maps physical or psychological landscapes through disjointed, non-linear descriptions of place, often blending real and imagined locations to critique colonialism, migration, or environmental loss; it uses spatial disjunction to mirror emotional or cultural dislocation.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Derek Walcott’s “The Sea Is History,” fragmented geography poem traces Caribbean diaspora through broken maps; In Craig Santos Perez’s “from unincorporated territory,” fragmented geography poem navigates Chamorro land and colonial erasure; In Layli Long Soldier’s “38,” fragmented geography poem recounts Dakota land loss; In Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen,” fragmented geography poem moves between US cities to expose racialized space; In Ocean Vuong’s “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” fragmented geography poem connects Vietnam, Hartford, and rural America; In Solmaz Sharif’s “Look,” fragmented geography poem links war zones and domestic spaces.
Additional Notes
Fragmented geography poem: A poem where the sense of place is disjointed, jumping abruptly between locations or describing a landscape in a fractured, non-contiguous manner; often reflects psychological or political instability.
Also Known As
Geographic fragment poem location-shard poem fractured map poetry Archipelago poem
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