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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imprint

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

Imprint means to press a mark onto a surface or to leave a lasting impression; in poetry, it can suggest memory, influence, or a visible trace.

Detailed Definition
Literally, imprint is the act of stamping or pressing a pattern into material. In poetry, it often refers to the lingering effect of an experience or the way an image marks the mind. It suits craft language because it combines physical pressure with symbolic memory.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may describe a childhood memory as imprinted on the mind, using photographic language; Fossil imprints in stone serve as metaphor for permanence within deep geological time in nature poetry; A poem about touch might describe a handprint imprinted in wet cement as a lasting trace of presence; Imprinted first impressions often shape a poem's meditation on how we perceive others; A poet describing inherited trauma might say pain is imprinted across generations; Footprints imprinted in snow can symbolize fleeting presence soon to be erased.
Additional Notes
Imprint suggests a lasting mark left by contact or pressure, often used to describe memory, influence, or inherited trauma passed between generations; the term carries a slightly more passive connotation than engrave or incise, since an imprint can result from incidental contact rather than deliberate carving, making it useful for discussing how experiences leave marks on a person without conscious intention; instructors might explore fossil imprint imagery as a way of discussing deep time and permanence within nature poetry.
Other Meanings of “imprint”
Also Known As
stamp emboss impress mark
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