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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lector

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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 reader, especially one who reads scripture or literature aloud in religious or communal settings

Detailed Definition
The lector appears in poetry as a figure of oral transmission and interpretive authority. Historically guiding congregations or workers through sacred or edifying texts, lectors bridged literacy and listening. In verse, they symbolize voice, memory, and the communal experience of narrative. Poets use lectors to explore themes of interpretation, the power of the spoken word, and the shared construction of meaning in pre-literate or semi-literate societies.
Example
Example in poetry:
In medieval monastic verse, the lector reads scripture during meals in silence; Victorian poets depict lectors as preservers of sacred text; The lector in George Herbert’s "The Church" models attentive devotion; Lectors appear in liturgical odes guiding communal prayer; In university verse, lectors recite classical texts to students; Their voices symbolize transmission of wisdom across time.
Additional Notes
Lectors read scripture or literature aloud in monasteries, churches, or public gatherings—before widespread literacy, they mediated sacred and secular texts—poetic lectors symbolize transmission, interpretation, or communal listening; their role highlights oral culture’s importance in religious and intellectual life.
Also Known As
reader lector in church
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