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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plinth

Craft Terms
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

Plinth means a solid base or foundation supporting a structure; in poetry, it can suggest a grounding element that holds a larger shape in place.

Detailed Definition
Literally, a plinth is the base of a column, statue, or building element. In poetry, it may be used metaphorically for the foundation of a poem, idea, or image. It belongs in craft language because it evokes support, elevation, and construction.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may describe a statue's plinth as a symbol of how history elevates certain figures over others; A poem about monuments might explore what remains after a statue is removed from its plinth; Plinth imagery can suggest false permanence, since even stone bases erode over time; A poet describing a museum might use empty plinths to comment on absence and forgotten history; A love poem might place the beloved on a metaphorical plinth, then question that idealization; Plinths in ruins evoke Romantic meditations on the decline of empires and human ambition.
Additional Notes
Plinth refers to the solid base supporting a structure, most commonly a statue or monument, and is often used metaphorically in poems that question the false permanence of memorials and historical narratives; instructors might explore how plinth imagery has taken on particular contemporary relevance in poems responding to the removal of controversial statues, where the empty plinth becomes a powerful symbol of contested history and shifting cultural memory.
Other Meanings of “plinth”
Also Known As
base pedestal foundation socle
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