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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inverse proposition

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

A proposition that directly negates or inverts the logic, claim, or implication of another statement within the poetic discourse.

Detailed Definition
An inverse proposition is a statement or claim that represents a logical reversal of a given idea, often used in poetry to explore alternative perspectives or create argumentative complexity. By presenting the inverse of an expected or established proposition, poets can challenge assumptions, reveal hidden implications, or create dialectical tension. This rhetorical strategy adds sophistication to a poem's logic and can produce surprise through reversal. Inverse propositions allow poets to examine ideas from multiple angles, demonstrating that truth may be approached through contrary paths and that opposite formulations may reveal unexpected insights or complementary aspects.
Example
Example in poetry:
Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116” uses inverse proposition: “Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds”; Emily Dickinson’s “Much Madness is divinest Sense” inverts societal logic; Contemporary poet Lucille Clifton’s “won’t you celebrate with me” uses inverse proposition: survival despite lack of traditional support; Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” proposes “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall” against neighbor’s “Good fences make good neighbors”; Sylvia Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” inverts resurrection: “I am your opus, / I am your valuable”; Ocean Vuong’s “Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong” inverts self-hatred into self-love.
Additional Notes
inverse proposition|A statement that reverses the usual relationship of subject and predicate; highlights irony or contrast.
Also Known As
logical converse reversed assertion antithetical claim Contrapositive
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