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 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 organized primarily around vivid visual imagery or snapshots rather than narrative

Detailed Definition
Image verse prioritizes vivid, concrete imagery as the primary vehicle of meaning, minimizing abstract statement in favor of sensory depiction that evokes emotion or idea through visual, tactile, or auditory detail; central to Imagist poetry (e.g., Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro”), this mode treats the image not as ornament but as the poem’s essential cognitive and emotional core, where perception becomes revelation.
Example
Example in poetry:
Williams’s "The Red Wheelbarrow": "so much depends / upon / a red wheel / barrow"; Pound’s "In a Station of the Metro": "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough"; Bashō’s haiku: "An old silent pond... / A frog jumps into the pond— / Splash! Silence again"; Neruda’s "Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market" paints the fish vividly; Mary Oliver’s "Wild Geese" opens with strong natural imagery.
Additional Notes
Image verse prioritizes vivid, concrete imagery over narrative or abstraction—akin to Imagism (Pound, H.D.). It uses precise visual details to evoke emotion or idea (“In a Station of the Metro”). Students should analyze how images interact: do they juxtapose, accumulate, or transform? Avoid paraphrasing—let the image “show.” Related to “pictorial verse” but less concerned with spatial layout.
Also Known As
Imagistic verse Picture poem Visual lyric Iconic stanza Photopoem Visual poem
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