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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fuse

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

Fuse means to join or melt parts together into one; in poetry, it can suggest blending voices, images, or meanings into a unified whole.

Detailed Definition
In literal craft use, fuse refers to the joining of materials by heat or close union. In poetry, it often appears when distinct elements merge so thoroughly that they become inseparable. It fits craft terms because it conveys transformation through union.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may describe two lovers as fused into one being, a common trope in romantic poetry; Metaphysical poets fuse disparate ideas, such as science and love, into a single striking conceit; A poem about identity might describe cultures fusing within a single person's experience; Fused metal in industrial imagery can symbolize permanent, irreversible transformation; A poet describing grief might say sorrow and joy have fused into a single complicated feeling; In ekphrastic poetry, colors on a canvas can be described as fusing into new unexpected hues.
Additional Notes
Fuse suggests an irreversible joining of separate elements into a single new whole, often used to describe the blending of disparate images, ideas, or voices within a poem; the term is particularly associated with metaphysical poetry, where poets like John Donne fuse seemingly unrelated concepts, such as scientific instruments and romantic love, into a single striking conceit; instructors might contrast fuse with join or bind, noting that fusion implies a more complete transformation in which the original separate parts can no longer be distinguished.
Also Known As
merge weld melt together unite
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