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.

After the death of my mother, 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.

My wife and I are simplifying our days. The server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the quieter life we want.

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.

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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Pictorial lyric

Genre
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 lyric poem that vividly evokes visual imagery or resembles a painted scene

Detailed Definition
A pictorial lyric uses vivid, spatially arranged imagery to evoke a visual scene or tableau, often prioritizing sensory detail over narrative; influenced by ekphrasis, it treats the poem as a canvas where color, light, and composition convey emotion and meaning through painterly precision.
Example
Example in poetry:
William Carlos Williams’ “The Red Wheelbarrow” is a pictorial lyric painting a visual scene; Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” is a pictorial lyric: “Petals on a wet, black bough”; H.D.’s Imagist poems like “Oread” use pictorial lyric to evoke sea and forest; Matsuo Bashō’s haiku function as pictorial lyrics in miniature.
Additional Notes
Pictorial lyric creates vivid visual images—often through precise, concrete language; Imagist poetry (Pound, H.D.) is the model; “show, don’t tell” is key; use sensory detail and economy to paint scenes.
Also Known As
Ekphrastic lyric Visual poem Pictorial verse Imagistic ode Art description imagistic fourteen-liner
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