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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ordered acrostic

Form
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 poem where the initial letters of lines or stanzas follow a predetermined sequence, typically alphabetical

Detailed Definition
An ordered acrostic is a poem in which the first letter of each line spells a word or message in sequence, creating a hidden textual layer that complements or comments on the surface meaning; this ancient form, used in religious and secular contexts alike, merges visual structure with verbal content to add depth, puzzle-like engagement, or devotional focus.
Example
Example in poetry:
ordered acrostic: "A ll things must pass, / B ut love remains, / C ast in memory’s glass..." (A–Z acrostic); Psalm 119 (Biblical acrostic, 22 stanzas, each 8 lines beginning with same Hebrew letter); "C onsider well your path, / H old fast to truth, / I n darkness, light will last..." (spells “CHI”); "E very dawn brings hope anew, / L et sorrow fade from view, / E choes of joy return to you" (spells “ELE”); Each line begins with successive letters in fixed order.
Additional Notes
ordered acrostic is a poem where the first letter of each line spells a word or message in sequence (e.g., A-B-C or a name); students should analyze how the constraint shapes content and whether the hidden message reinforces or ironizes the surface text—this form appears in medieval devotional poetry (e.g., Anglo-Saxon “Christ I”) and modern constrained writing.
Also Known As
linear acrostic straight-line acrostic vertical message poem sequential initial acrostic Alphabetic acrostic chronological acrostic Sequential acrostic
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