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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gather

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

Gather means to bring separate things together; in poetry, it can suggest collecting images, voices, or meanings into one place.

Detailed Definition
Literally, gather is the act of assembling or collecting. In poetry, it may describe the way a poet accumulates details, emotions, or motifs into a coherent pattern. It belongs in craft language because it implies the deliberate gathering of material before or during making.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet gathers scattered memories into a single elegy to honor someone who has died; Harvest imagery often involves gathering wheat or fruit as metaphor for accumulated wisdom or life's work; A poem about family reunion might describe relatives gathering around a table as its central image; A poet may gather fragments of overheard conversation into a documentary-style piece; Gathering storm clouds serve as a common metaphor for rising tension or danger in narrative poems; A poet compiling a collection gathers individual poems written over years into a unified book.
Additional Notes
Gather is a versatile craft term describing the collection of disparate elements into a unified whole, often used in discussions of elegy, harvest imagery, and documentary poetics; the term carries gentler, more organic connotations than assemble or compile, often associated with agricultural imagery of harvesting or with communal gatherings of people; instructors might explore how gathering imagery in elegiac poems suggests an attempt to collect and preserve fragments of a lost life or memory before they scatter and disappear entirely.
Also Known As
collect assemble accumulate group compile reap pluck
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