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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Mold

Craft Terms
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 mold is a preexisting shape that gives developing poetic material a recognizable form.

Detailed Definition
A mold may be a sonnet, prose poem, persona, refrain pattern, or conceptual structure into which experience is poured. It provides limits that can accelerate invention by making some decisions already. Yet material may cool unevenly or resist the mold, and those distortions can become the poem’s most revealing features. A poet should ask whether the inherited form clarifies the subject, pressures it into productive conflict, or merely disguises uncertainty behind a familiar outline.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet can use mold as a verb when memory molds a speaker’s character; “The river molded the stones” makes natural change feel like deliberate shaping; A poem about clay may use a mold as an image for tradition or inherited identity; Mold can also mean fungus, as in a house where dampness symbolizes neglect or decay.
Additional Notes
A mold gives an emerging poem a structure before all its details are known. The mold may be a sonnet, villanelle, dramatic monologue, list, letter, or inherited mythic pattern. Working within a mold can create useful pressure and reveal unexpected meaning, while resisting it can produce productive tension. Distinguish a mold from a jig: the mold shapes the whole object, whereas a jig guides repeated actions.
Also Known As
Mould Form cast shape
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