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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

Home › Glossary › Letter I

Indictment

Law And Justice
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 formal accusation that a person has committed a crime. Poets may use it as a metaphor for public blame or moral accusation.

Detailed Definition
An indictment is a formal legal charge, often issued after a grand jury finds sufficient grounds for prosecution. In poetry, the word carries the force of collective judgment and can turn a lyric into an accusation against war, prejudice, greed, or betrayal. A poem may indict an institution, a generation, or the speaker's own failures, borrowing the grave, ceremonial authority of the courtroom.
Example
Example in poetry:
A protest poem may call an indictment “a sheet of accusations,” turning formal criminal charges into a symbol of public shame; The speaker writes an indictment of war, listing ruined homes and unnamed dead as evidence; In a courtroom dramatic monologue, the indictment is read aloud before the accused answers, creating tension at the poem’s opening; A poet can describe a polluted river as an indictment of corporate neglect
Additional Notes
An indictment is an accusation, not a finding of guilt. Poets can use it to make a speaker, institution, generation, or society stand accused of cruelty, neglect, or hypocrisy. The term carries a formal, public force, making it useful for protest poetry and moral critique. Contrast it with acquittal, conviction, and testimony.
Also Known As
Bill of Indictment True Bill
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