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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lattice

Craft Terms
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

Lattice means an open framework of crisscrossed strips or lines; in poetry, it can suggest a patterned structure of relation, enclosure, or design.

Detailed Definition
In literal craft, a lattice is a framework built from intersecting elements. In poetry, it may describe the way images, motifs, or arguments crisscross to create an ordered but open form. It suits craft language because it evokes visible structure and interweaving.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may describe a garden trellis as a lattice supporting climbing vines, symbolizing structured growth; Lattice windows in older poems often evoke domestic confinement, especially in poems about women's lives; A poem about memory might describe recollections as a lattice of interconnected fragments; Lattice imagery can represent the intersecting patterns of family relationships across generations; A poet describing light through a lattice fence might use dappled shadow as a central visual motif; Formal verse structures themselves can be described as a lattice supporting the poem's meaning.
Additional Notes
Lattice describes an open, crisscrossed framework, often used metaphorically to describe complex, interconnected structures such as memory, family relationships, or formal poetic patterns; the term is closely associated with garden and architectural imagery, particularly trellises and window lattices, and instructors might explore how lattice imagery in poems about domestic confinement, especially historical poems about women's lives, uses the literal structure of a lattice window to comment on restricted visibility and movement.
Also Known As
latticework grid network trellis
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