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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Ornamental flourishing

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

Decorative elaboration that adds aesthetic complexity to plain expression

Detailed Definition
Decorative elaboration or embellishment of plain expression through additional ornamental language, figurative devices, or rhetorical complexity. Common in Baroque and Victorian poetry, ornamental flourishing enhances beauty and richness when skillfully employed, though it risks becoming mere verbal display when taken to excess, requiring careful judgment about when elaboration serves meaning and when it obscures or distracts from essential content.
Example
Example in poetry:
Ornamental flourishing uses decorative language or typography: George Herbert’s shaped poems like “Easter Wings”; Victorian poets like Algernon Swinburne use lush diction: “lilies and languors and loves”; Contemporary example: poems with floral borders or gold-leaf text; In Arabic calligraphy poetry, script itself is ornamental; Such flourishing can critique or celebrate excess; It blurs poetry and visual art.
Additional Notes
Decorative elaboration of plain expression. Can enhance beauty but risks excess. Should serve meaning rather than mere display. Balance is essential.
Also Known As
Baroque embellishment Decorative elaboration Rhetorical ornament Stylistic flourish Efflorescence
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