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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ongoing action

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 grammatical or poetic construction that conveys ongoing, incomplete action—often through progressive verb forms—to suggest immediacy or continuity.

Detailed Definition
Ongoing action refers to verb forms or constructions in poetry that emphasize the continuous, progressive, or extended nature of events rather than their completion or instantaneous occurrence. This temporal quality affects how readers perceive the poem's action and can create effects ranging from immediacy to timelessness. Poetry employing ongoing action emphasizes process over product, becoming over being, or duration over discrete moments. This choice reflects philosophical attitudes toward time and experience, and can create particular tenses or moods from urgent presence to meditative continuity, depending on context and implementation.
Example
Example in poetry:
ongoing action: In Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” “I celebrate myself, and sing myself” continues through cataloging; Ginsberg’s “Howl” uses anaphora to sustain manic energy; Lucille Clifton’s “won’t you celebrate with me” builds identity through present-tense assertion; contemporary poet Danez Smith’s “not an elegy for Mike Brown” uses continuous present to resist closure; ongoing action conveys immediacy and unresolved tension; it often employs present participles and enjambment.
Additional Notes
ongoing action|Depicting actions as continuous or in progress; contributes to immediacy and unfolding motion in verse.
Also Known As
continuous motion durative event progressive occurrence Continuative aspect
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