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.

After the death of my mother, 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.

My wife and I are simplifying our days. The server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the quieter life we want.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the 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.

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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Lineage poetry

Genre
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

Poetry that traces familial, cultural, or ancestral heritage through narrative or lyrical means

Detailed Definition
Lineage poetry explores familial, ancestral, or cultural inheritance through generational narratives, genealogical imagery, or dialogues with forebears; it often blends personal memory with historical record, using elegiac or testimonial modes to trace identity across time, as in the works of Natasha Trethewey or Ocean Vuong.
Example
Example in poetry:
Natasha Trethewey’s “Native Guard” traces maternal and racial lineage; Lucille Clifton’s “Generations” documents family history in spare verse; Ocean Vuong’s “Time Is a Mother” explores Vietnamese-American ancestry; Rita Dove’s “Thomas and Beulah” fictionalizes grandparents’ lives in poetic sequence.
Additional Notes
Lineage poetry traces familial, cultural, or artistic inheritance through generational imagery or voice; often blends personal and collective memory.
Also Known As
Ancestral verse genealogical lyric heritage poetry familial elegy Stemmatic poem Genealogical verse
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