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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plaited story

Structure
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 narrative design in poetry with interlaced or intertwined strands

Detailed Definition
Plaited story refers to a narrative poem in which two or more storylines are intricately interwoven, often through alternating stanzas, voices, or timelines, creating a braided or interlaced structure that enriches thematic resonance and deepens reader engagement; this technique allows poets to explore parallels, contrasts, or causal relationships between disparate events or characters within a single poetic architecture.
Example
Example in poetry:
A long narrative poem where the main story is intertwined with several subplots or concurrent character arcs; A sequence of poems that tell a single, evolving narrative but jump between different time periods or perspectives, requiring the reader to plait the threads together; A poem that uses an extended analogy or metaphor that is continuously woven into the main narrative fabric; Homer's Odyssey with its internal narrative flashbacks and concurrent events.
Additional Notes
plaited story: A narrative poem where multiple story threads or timelines are interwoven throughout the work, often using repetition, parallel structure, or a recurring motif; creates narrative complexity.
Also Known As
braided story intertwined tale woven narrative Braided narrative
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