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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memorial verse

Form
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 written to commemorate, mourn, or celebrate the life of a deceased person, often used in funerary contexts.

Detailed Definition
Poetry written to honor and remember the dead, encompassing epitaphs, elegies, commemorative verses for monuments or memorial services. Can be carved on gravestones, included in funeral programs, or published in remembrance. Should provide comfort while appropriately honoring the deceased. May be personal and intimate or formal and public depending on context and occasion. The memorial function distinguishes this from private elegies, as memorial verse specifically intends commemoration and public remembrance rather than merely private grief expression.
Example
Example in poetry:
Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” is memorial verse for Lincoln; Emily Dickinson’s “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” serves as psychological memorial verse; Contemporary poet Ocean Vuong’s “Time Is a Mother” functions as memorial verse for his mother; Yusef Komunyakaa’s “Facing It” is memorial verse for Vietnam War dead; Lucille Clifton’s “jasper texas 1998” is memorial verse for racial violence; W.H. Auden’s “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” blends personal and public memorial verse.
Additional Notes
Poetry written to honor and remember the dead, for graves or memorial services. Encompasses epitaphs, elegies, and commemorative verses. Can be carved on monuments or included in programs and anthologies. Should provide comfort while honoring the deceased. May be personal or formal depending on context.
Also Known As
commemorative verse funeral poetry memorial writing elegiac inscription Archival poem Epitaphic verse Inscriptive verse Commemorative Commemorative lyric elegiac tribute
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