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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Mourning

Psychology
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

The formal expression of grief, especially after a death; in poetry, a structured, often public ritual of sorrow, allowing for dignified processing of loss.

Detailed Definition
Mourning in poetry structures elegy, epitaph, and lament, with formal conventions—repetition, apostrophe to the dead, and images of darkness or flowers. Poets process loss through ritualized verse, balancing personal sorrow with communal solace. Mourning transforms grief into enduring art, as in Milton's "Lycidas" or Whitman's Lincoln elegies. It enables the poet to honor, question, and gradually accept absence, making poetry a vessel for remembrance and healing.
Example
Example in poetry:
Mourning in Walt Whitman's "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," mourning for Lincoln; In John Milton's "Lycidas," mourning for a drowned friend; In W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues," mourning is personal and public; In Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," mourning for the unknown dead; In contemporary elegy, mourning is often ambivalent; In Emily Dickinson's poetry, mourning is a frequent theme.
Additional Notes
Mourning in poetry structures elegy, epitaph, and lament with formal conventions—repetition, apostrophe to the dead, and imagery of darkness or flowers. In teaching, distinguish mourning from grief: mourning is the formal expression of grief, while grief is the internal emotion. Poets process loss through ritualized verse, balancing personal sorrow with communal solace. Mourning transforms grief into enduring art. Students should examine how poets use apostrophe, repetition, and imagery of burial or remembrance to convey mourning's ritualistic, consoling power.
Other Meanings of “Mourning”
Also Known As
Grief lamentation bereavement sorrow keening Wailing
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