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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Infiltration

Military
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

The secret movement of people or agents into an area controlled by an opposing force. It suggests patience, concealment, and danger advancing unseen.

Detailed Definition
Infiltration seeks to enter enemy territory or an organization without being detected, often to gather intelligence, sabotage systems, or prepare a larger operation. Its poetic energy comes from the slow violation of boundaries: a footprint, altered shadow, whispered name, or unfamiliar face may signal that defenses have failed. The term can also describe grief, suspicion, ideology, or memory entering the self. Unlike an open assault, infiltration makes uncertainty itself the weapon and turns ordinary surroundings into evidence.
Example
Example in poetry:
The scout moved by infiltration through reeds, entering the enemy camp without a torch; In a political poem, infiltration can describe ideas or rumors entering a society unnoticed; The slow infiltration of winter into the abandoned barracks gives the landscape a military metaphor; A poet may use infiltration to show grief gradually occupying the speaker’s thoughts.
Additional Notes
Infiltration is the concealed entry of people, information, or influence into territory or a group. It usually implies gradual movement and the avoidance of detection, unlike an open assault. In poetry, it can describe not only military penetration but also doubt, memory, rumor, illness, or political influence quietly entering an apparently secure world.
Also Known As
Penetration Covert Entry
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