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.

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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Nonliteral writing

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

Poetic language that departs from direct or factual expression to suggest deeper or alternative meanings

Detailed Definition
Nonliteral writing in poetry eschews straightforward denotation in favor of symbolic, metaphorical, or allusive expression; by displacing literal meaning onto images, sounds, or structures, it creates resonance beyond the page, inviting readers into an interpretive space where ambiguity, mystery, and multiplicity become central to the poem’s power and depth.
Example
Example in poetry:
Nonliteral writing: "The wind carried your voice in its pockets"; "My heart is a compass pointing only to you"; "The house sighed when you closed the door"; "Stars are the holes heaven pokes to watch us"; "Hope is a seed that grows in darkness"; "Memory is a mirror that only shows the past."
Additional Notes
Nonliteral writing in poetry refers to text that prioritizes suggestion, ambiguity, and associative logic over direct statement or narrative clarity; it invites readers to engage interpretively rather than decode linearly—students should consider how tone, sound, and image create meaning beyond propositional content, as in Symbolist or Language poetry.
Also Known As
figurative prose symbolic narrative metaphorical discourse indirect writing Abstract language
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