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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Necessary truth

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 proposition regarded as inherently and universally valid—such as “all humans die”—often invoked in philosophical or metaphysical verse.

Detailed Definition
Necessary truth in poetry refers to a proposition or image that feels universally or logically inevitable within the poem’s internal world—such as “light follows dawn”—lending the work philosophical weight or emotional resonance by grounding metaphor in perceived axiomatic reality.
Example
Example in poetry:
Necessary truth: In Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 116,” “Love is not love / Which alters when it alteration finds” asserts love’s constancy as logical necessity; Emily Dickinson’s “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” treats mental collapse as inevitable process; W.H. Auden’s “The More Loving One” concedes cosmic indifference as necessary truth; Rainer Maria Rilke’s “You must change your life” presents transformation as existential imperative; philosophical poets like Lucretius in “De Rerum Natura” ground necessary truths in atomic theory; contemporary poet Claudia Rankine states “You are not sick, you are injured” as a necessary truth about systemic racism.
Additional Notes
Necessary truth: In philosophy and occasionally used in poetic theory, a statement that cannot be false, often related to logic or definition, as opposed to contingent truth, which depends on the way the world actually is; a poem might explore the tension between these two types of truth.
Also Known As
self-evident truth necessary proposition absolute truth Apodictic
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