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

Home › Glossary › Letter P

participial modifier

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

A participle or participial phrase used to modify a noun or clause

Detailed Definition
Participial modifier is a phrase beginning with a participle (an -ing or -ed verb form) that functions adjectivally to describe a noun, adding dynamism and concision to poetic description, as in “Covered in dust from the long road, the traveler collapsed.” Present participles (-ing) suggest ongoing action; past participles (-ed, -en) imply completed states. In poetry, participial modifiers embed motion within imagery, compressing narrative into single lines. Students must avoid dangling modifiers—ensuring the participle clearly refers to the subject—and balance them with finite verbs to prevent static abstraction, using them to enhance rhythm and visual immediacy without sacrificing grammatical clarity.
Example
Example in poetry:
Walking slowly through the garden, she noticed the first rose; / Singing softly to herself, he stirred the evening stew; / Covered in dust from the long road, the traveler collapsed; / Gleaming in the moonlight, the lake seemed alive; / Exhausted from the climb, they reached the summit at dawn; / Whispering secrets to the wind, the child made a wish
Additional Notes
Participial modifier uses a participle (-ing or -ed verb) to describe a noun (“Running late, she missed the train”). It adds dynamism and concision. Students should avoid dangling modifiers—ensure the participle clearly modifies the subject. Overuse can create breathless prose; balance with finite clauses.
Also Known As
verbal adjective phrase action-describing clause dynamic descriptive element -ing modifier Independent phrase
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