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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Graft

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

Graft is the deliberate joining of material from different sources, registers, or poetic stages.

Detailed Definition
A poet grafts when a borrowed form, found phrase, archival record, earlier draft, or contrasting voice is joined to new writing. The graft should create living tension rather than a decorative patch. Differences in diction and rhythm can reveal historical distance, contested ownership, or a divided speaker. In a sequence, grafting may let a contemporary lyric grow around inherited language. The poet must attend to context and attribution when using found or quoted material, since ethical joining matters as much as formal success.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet uses graft to describe joining unlike materials, voices, or traditions; “She grafted a folk refrain onto a sonnet” demonstrates deliberate formal combination; A grafted image can make an abrupt but meaningful connection between city life and rural memory; The biological sense of grafting can symbolize family inheritance, adoption, or chosen kinship.
Additional Notes
Graft describes a deliberate joining of materials that originated separately. A poet might graft colloquial speech onto elevated syntax, combine archival language with personal testimony, or revise an early image into a later draft. The join may remain visible and generate productive tension. Grafting can enrich voice and texture, but students should consider context, attribution, and ethical questions when incorporating another person’s words.
Also Known As
Splice Transplanting
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