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

ghost echo

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 faint or implied repetition of sound, word, or image that evokes presence through absence

Detailed Definition
A ghost echo is a subtle, often phonetic or imagistic recurrence within a poem that evokes an absent presence—such as a deceased loved one, lost memory, or silenced voice—through faint repetitions, near-homophones, or spectral allusions that haunt the text without explicit naming.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –,” the absent “Lord” is a ghost echo of expected divine presence; In T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” the missing Grail legend echoes beneath fragmented narratives; In Seamus Heaney’s “Mid-Term Break,” the unspoken death of the brother haunts the poem as a ghost echo; In Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen,” erased voices of Black victims form ghost echoes in white spaces.
Additional Notes
A ghost echo is a faint, often haunting recurrence of a word, sound, or image that lingers beyond its initial appearance; use subtly to create atmosphere or subconscious resonance without overt repetition.
Also Known As
Phantom echo spectral trace lingering resonance afterimage refrain Hidden repetend Unstated chorus
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