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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Incomplete cycle

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

A poetic series that stops before completion, suggesting absence or rupture

Detailed Definition
An incomplete cycle is a series of related poems that ends prematurely, either intentionally or by circumstance, leaving thematic or narrative threads unresolved. This can invite speculation or emphasize loss.
Example
Example in poetry:
T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” presents an incomplete cycle of fertility and decay; Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel” moves toward dawn but ends in unresolved transformation; Contemporary poet Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen” offers incomplete cycle of racial trauma and healing; Emily Dickinson’s fascicles form incomplete cycles of doubt and faith; Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods” interrupts the journey cycle with obligations; Derek Walcott’s “Omeros” presents incomplete cycle of Caribbean history and myth.
Additional Notes
A poem that is part of a larger cycle but stands alone due to incompletion or fragmentation. The gaps invite reader speculation and can be deliberate narrative tools rather than failures. Related to the fragment and the unfinished poem. Contrast with the complete sequence. Learners should ask whether incompletion is structural (planned) or accidental, since the distinction shapes how readers interpret the gaps.
Also Known As
Unfinished cycle Broken sequence Fragmentary cycle Incomplete series Fragment cycle
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