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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Imagistic line

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 poetic line that relies primarily on vivid, concrete sensory images to convey meaning

Detailed Definition
An Imagistic line adheres to the principles of Imagism—clarity, precision, and economy—presenting a single, vivid image without abstraction or commentary; such lines rely on concrete sensory detail to evoke emotion or idea directly, avoiding metaphorical excess in favor of sharp, immediate perception that trusts the image itself to carry the poem’s meaning.
Example
Example in poetry:
Imagistic line: "Red wheelbarrow glazed with rain water"; "Petals on a wet, black bough" (Williams); "A crow in a bare tree at dusk"; "Steam rising from a manhole in winter"; "Frost on a windowpane shaped like a fern"; "A single dandelion seed caught in a spiderweb."
Additional Notes
An Imagistic line presents a single, precise image without commentary; students should avoid abstraction and focus on sensory immediacy—practice revising vague lines into concrete snapshots; foundational to Imagism, it contrasts with Abstract poetic line (12155) and emphasizes “show, don’t tell.”
Also Known As
concrete image line precise visual line Imagist utterance sensory snapshot abstract textual line
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