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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Internal referencing

Device
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 device where later lines or stanzas refer back to earlier elements within the same poem for cohesion or emphasis.

Detailed Definition
The practice of a poem referring to, quoting, or echoing its own lines, images, or elements, creating internal cross-references and self-reflexive structure. Internal referencing builds unity, emphasizes key motifs, creates cyclical patterns, and makes the poem aware of itself. This technique ranges from subtle echoes to explicit repetition of earlier lines, creating networks of connection within the poem. Related to metapoetry and self-conscious artistry.
Example
Example in poetry:
T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” uses internal referencing: “I will show you fear in a handful of dust” echoes earlier “dead land”; Emily Dickinson’s fascicles reference motifs like “Circumference” across poems; Contemporary poet Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen” internally references “you” across vignettes; Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods” references “promises to keep” as internal echo; Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel” references “child’s cry” as internal motif; Ocean Vuong’s “Time Is a Mother” internally references mother’s voice throughout.
Additional Notes
Self-reflexive technique creating unity and complexity. The poem becomes its own subject. Related to metapoetry and self-conscious artistry.
Also Known As
Self-referential verse Internal cross-reference Recursive poetry Self-citing poem
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