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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mood shift

Device
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 change in emotional tone or atmosphere within a poem

Detailed Definition
A mood shift is a deliberate change in emotional tone or atmosphere within a poem, often signaled by altered diction, imagery, rhythm, or perspective; it creates dynamic contrast—such as from despair to hope or calm to terror—and is central to the volta in sonnets or the emotional arc in lyric poetry.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 29, the mood shifts from despair (“When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes”) to joy (“Haply I think on thee”); In Keats’s “Ode to a Nightingale,” the mood shifts from melancholy to ecstatic escape, then back to sorrow; In Sylvia Plath’s “Mirror,” the mood shifts from clinical detachment to haunting revelation; In Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” the mood shifts from tranquil observation to somber duty.
Additional Notes
Mood shift alters emotional tone within a poem (e.g., despair to hope); often signaled by volta, imagery change, or diction; essential for dynamic lyric; ensure the shift feels earned, not abrupt.
Also Known As
Tonal shift emotional pivot affective turn mood transition atmospheric transition
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