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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missing stanza

Structure
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 deliberate omission of a stanza to signify absence, disruption, or thematic void

Detailed Definition
Missing stanza is a compositional choice where a stanza is intentionally omitted from a poem’s sequence, creating a gap that signifies loss, censorship, or rupture. The absence becomes a structural and thematic device, inviting readers to contemplate what has been erased, forgotten, or deemed unspeakable within the poetic narrative.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem with stanzas 1, 2, 4, 5—stanza 3 omitted to signify loss; Elegy with blank space where the deceased’s voice would be; Sequence about war with missing stanza for the fallen; Poem about divorce with stanza removed for "the vows we broke"
Additional Notes
missing stanza denotes an intentional gap in a poem’s structure where a stanza is omitted, often to signify loss, censorship, or narrative rupture; this device can create suspense, emphasize silence, or mirror historical erasure—students should examine how surrounding stanzas frame the absence and whether the missing content is recoverable or meant to remain unknowable, as seen in postmodern and documentary poetics.
Also Known As
omitted stanza erased stanza gap in sequence structural lacuna absent verse
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