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

Home › Glossary › Letter G

gerundive form

Grammar
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 verb form functioning as a noun, ending in -ing, expressing action or state

Detailed Definition
Gerundive form—more accurately termed gerund in English grammar—refers to a verb ending in -ing that functions as a noun, such as “Running is joy” or “Her singing moved me.” In poetry, gerunds blur the boundary between action and state, creating fluidity and immediacy by turning processes into entities. While Latin gerundives convey obligation (“to be done”), English gerunds express activity as concept. Poets use them to embed motion within description or to elevate everyday actions to thematic significance. Students should distinguish gerunds from present participles (which modify nouns) and avoid overuse, which can weaken agency by replacing finite verbs with nominalized actions.
Example
Example in poetry:
In traditional Latin grammar, a gerundive is a passive verbal adjective of obligation: Carthago delenda est, “Carthage must be destroyed”; “Liber legendus est” means “the book is to be read,” with the gerundive agreeing with liber; Do not confuse this with the English gerund in “Reading calms me,” where reading functions as a noun; For poetry students, the gerundive can create pressure or duty: “a wound to be tended, a name not to be spoken”
Additional Notes
Gerundive form (more accurately, gerund in English) uses -ing verbs as nouns (“Running is joy”). It blurs action and state, creating fluidity. Common in meditative poetry. Students should distinguish from present participles (which modify nouns). Overuse can weaken agency—balance with finite verbs. Related to nominalization and process philosophy.
Also Known As
verbal noun construction action-as-state phrasing participial nominalization -ing construction
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