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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intertextual depth

Concept
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 layering of meaning in a poem through references to or echoes of other literary works

Detailed Definition
Intertextual depth refers to the layered resonance created when a poem engages with other texts—through allusion, quotation, parody, or thematic dialogue—thereby situating itself within a broader literary, historical, or cultural conversation. This technique enriches meaning by inviting readers to draw connections between works, as when a modern elegy echoes Virgil or a love poem rewrites Sappho. Effective intertextuality provides enough context for recognition without requiring encyclopedic knowledge, ensuring the reference serves the poem’s emotional core.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem quoting Virgil while describing subway graffiti; Verse blending Shakespearean diction with hip-hop references; Elegy weaving Homer’s underworld with hospice waiting rooms; Lyric juxtaposing Rumi’s mysticism with quantum entanglement; Poem layering biblical psalms over refugee camp testimonies
Additional Notes
Intertextual depth layers references to other texts—myths, poems, films—creating dialogue across time. Allusions should enrich, not obscure; provide enough context for recognition without footnotes. Think of it as poetic conversation.
Also Known As
referential depth textual layering
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