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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patchwork technique

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 compositional method of assembling disparate textual fragments—quotations, clichés, found language—to form a cohesive or deliberately dissonant whole.

Detailed Definition
Patchwork technique is a compositional method in poetry that deliberately combines heterogeneous elements—such as dialects, genres, historical registers, or media fragments—into a single work to reflect cultural complexity, memory, or identity; inspired by quilting or bricolage, it celebrates fragmentation as a mode of coherence in postmodern and diasporic writing.
Example
Example in poetry:
The method of combining heterogeneous or diverse elements (fragments, quotations, different forms) into a single, unified text; The practice of collage or bricolage in poetry, blending found texts with original writing; A technique that involves sampling and juxtaposing different voices, historical periods, or subject matters; The use of varied meters, forms, and dictions within a single long poem.
Additional Notes
patchwork technique: A compositional method involving the fragmentation and reassembly of pre-existing or newly created elements; creates a layered, mosaic-like texture; related to montage.
Also Known As
mosaic technique collage method assemblage form Collage technique
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