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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incise

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

Incise means to cut into a surface with a sharp tool; in poetry, it can suggest precision, sharpness, or the making of a clear mark.

Detailed Definition
In literal craft, incise refers to carving lines or shapes into a hard material. In poetry, the term may imply a language that is exact, cutting, and finely controlled. It belongs in craft terms because it stresses deliberate incision as an artistic act.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may use the image of incising letters into stone to explore the permanence of written language; Epitaphs are incised into gravestones, and poets often meditate on this literal carving in elegy; A poem about tattoos might describe ink incised into skin as a marker of chosen identity; Incising a mark into bark, as lovers carving initials into a tree, appears in romantic pastoral poetry; A poet describing ancient tablets might use incising to evoke the deep history of written language; Incised wrinkles on an aging face can serve as a metaphor for accumulated experience.
Additional Notes
Incise emphasizes precise, deliberate cutting into a surface, closely related to engrave and chisel but often implying a finer, more delicate line rather than deep carving; the term is frequently used in discussions of epitaphs, tattoos, and other forms of deliberate bodily or material marking, and instructors might explore how incision imagery raises questions about permanence, choice, and the visible marking of identity, whether through inherited scars or chosen adornment.
Also Known As
carve cut engrave score
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