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

Home › Glossary › Letter L

Logogram

Technique
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 visual poem shaped typographically to resemble its subject (e.g., wings for a bird), merging semantic content with iconic form.

Detailed Definition
A logogram, or concrete poem, uses typographical arrangement to form an image related to its content—such as a cross for a religious theme or wings for flight. This technique merges visual art with verbal expression, emphasizing poetry as a spatial as well as sonic medium, and has roots in ancient Greek pattern poems and 20th-century concrete poetry movements.
Example
Example in poetry:
A logogram poem might spell “LOVE” using only words beginning with L, O, V, E arranged visually; Another example: a poem shaped like a heart where each line begins with letters spelling “HEART”; A minimalist logogram: “S / U / N” with each letter representing a word or image; A more complex logogram uses the word “TIME” as both subject and structural scaffold, with stanzas titled T, I, M, E; Some concrete poems function as logograms by embedding the word visually in the layout.
Additional Notes
A logogram in poetry is a visual or structural composition where the arrangement of words or letters spells or represents a word thematically linked to the poem’s subject; it overlaps with concrete poetry but emphasizes orthographic symbolism over pure shape; examples include acrostics or poems shaped like their subject (e.g., a cross, a tree); students can use logograms to explore the interplay of visual and verbal meaning; caution: the technique should enhance, not replace, poetic substance; historically linked to medieval and Renaissance emblematic traditions.
Also Known As
Acrostic Logogram Orthographic Poem Word-Shaped Poem Ideogram
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