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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Painterly

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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

Having qualities associated with painting, especially visible brushwork, color, and texture. In poetry, it describes richly visual and sensuous language.

Detailed Definition
Painterly describes a style that emphasizes the expressive handling of color, texture, light, and surface rather than sharp linear precision. A painterly poem may build scenes through layered sensory impressions, blended images, and shifting tonal effects. The term is especially useful when language seems to move like brushwork, allowing perception to remain fluid and provisional. It can also describe writing that values atmosphere and visual abundance over exact narrative definition.
Example
Example in poetry:
A painterly poem uses lush sensory description, layered color, and visible brushstroke-like language rather than flat summary; John Keats's "To Autumn" often feels painterly because its fruit, mist, light, and harvest scenes create a richly textured landscape; A poet may describe rain as broad gray strokes across a window, making the image feel painterly rather than photographic; In a painterly elegy, blurred edges and blended colors can mirror the speaker's uncertain, changing memories
Additional Notes
Painterly writing creates an effect like painting through layered color, texture, light, perspective, and brushlike movement. It often favors vivid sensory description and attention to composition: foreground, background, shadow, and edge. Compare ekphrasis, which responds to a specific artwork; painterly diction can describe any scene. Practical hint: choose a limited palette and one dominant quality of light so description feels composed rather than like a list of colors.
Also Known As
Painterly Style
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