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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Mime

Performance
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

Nonverbal action used to suggest objects, settings, or events without physical props. It can support a poem’s imagery through gesture and movement.

Detailed Definition
Mime in poetry performance uses imagined objects and silent actions to make a scene visible. A performer might indicate a door, a cup, a bus ride, or a repetitive labor through precise physical movement rather than bringing an actual object onstage. Used sparingly, mime can clarify narrative action and enrich sensory detail. Used too literally, it can compete with the poem’s imaginative language, so the strongest choices leave room for listeners to create their own images.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet silently mimes opening an old letter before reading a poem addressed to a deceased relative; During a poem about hunger, the performer mimes setting a table and discovering that every plate is empty; A reader uses mime to suggest rowing a boat in a poem about crossing a river, avoiding actual props while clarifying the action; In a collaborative performance, one poet recites while another mimes the repeated tasks of factory work described in the lines
Additional Notes
Mime creates imagined objects and spaces through clear, consistent movement. Establish an object’s size, weight, and location before interacting with it, so the audience can follow the action.
Also Known As
Pantomime Silent Acting
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