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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Image-based verse

Form
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

Poetry that relies primarily on visual imagery for its structure or effect

Detailed Definition
Image-based verse is poetry that derives its primary meaning and emotional impact from concrete, sensory images rather than abstract ideas, logical argument, or conventional storytelling; adhering to Imagist principles, it uses precise visual, auditory, or tactile details—like “wet, black bough” or “petals on a bough”—to evoke mood, theme, or revelation through implication and juxtaposition.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough” (Pound) uses pure image without narrative; “so much depends / upon / a red wheel / barrow” (Williams) constructs verse from visual observation; Bashō’s “old pond—frog jumps in—sound of water” presents image as verse; H.D.’s “Sea Rose” offers image-based lines without exposition.
Additional Notes
Image-based verse prioritizes visual or sensory imagery as its organizing principle, often using free verse and concrete details to evoke mood or meaning without narrative.
Also Known As
Visual poetry imagistic verse sensory image poetry picture-driven verse Iconometric line
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