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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Movement figure

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 rhetorical or poetic figure that expresses physical or conceptual motion

Detailed Definition
Movement figure is a rhetorical or imagistic device that conveys physical or metaphorical motion within a poetic line—such as “the river’s rush” or “hope ascending”—using verbs, prepositions, or kinetic nouns to animate the text and engage the reader’s sense of time, space, and transformation.
Example
Example in poetry:
In T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” the Thames “sweats oil and tar” — a movement figure evoking polluted flow; Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road” uses “I inhale great draughts of space” as a movement figure suggesting expansive motion; Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen” employs “You are in the dark, in the car…” as a movement figure tracking racialized mobility; Derek Walcott’s “The Sea Is History” uses tidal imagery as a movement figure for diaspora; Lucille Clifton’s “homage to my hips” declares “these hips are mighty hips… they go where they want to go” — a kinetic movement figure of bodily autonomy; Natalie Diaz’s “When My Brother Was an Aztec” uses “He ran through our walls like a ghost” as a haunting movement figure.
Additional Notes
A movement figure is a rhetorical or imagistic device that conveys motion through metaphor, syntax, or sound (e.g., alliteration mimicking footsteps); it animates poetic description.
Also Known As
Kinetic trope motion device dynamic figure action-based image Kinetic metaphor
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