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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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Narrow vision

Concept
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 poetic perspective deliberately limited in scope or awareness, often to heighten irony, intimacy, or thematic focus.

Detailed Definition
Narrow vision is a poetic technique that limits the speaker’s perspective to a confined physical or emotional frame—such as a window, a single object, or a restricted memory—intensifying focus and often symbolizing isolation, trauma, or constrained agency. By refusing panoramic scope, narrow vision forces depth over breadth, making the small detail resonate with larger implications (“I see only the window— / Not the street, not the sky, just glass”). This approach appears in war poetry, illness narratives, and domestic lyrics, where limitation becomes a lens for psychological truth. Students should use sensory precision to make the restricted view vivid, implying a world beyond the frame through what is excluded as much as what is shown.
Example
Example in poetry:
I see only the window— / Not the street, not the sky, just glass; / My world is four walls and a clock; From my bed, I watch the same tree— / Seasons change, but I stay still; / My vision ends at the fence; The photograph shows only her hands— / Not her face, not her eyes, just skin; / My memory is cropped tight
Additional Notes
Narrow vision limits the speaker’s perspective to a small physical or emotional frame (e.g., a window, a single object). It intensifies focus and can symbolize isolation or trauma. Students should use sensory details to make the limited view vivid. Avoid monotony by implying a larger world beyond the frame.
Also Known As
constrained perspective limited focal lyric circumscribed poetic gaze Abbreviated perspective
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