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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poet-worshipper

Literary Character
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 person who venerates poets in a cult-like or idealized manner.

Detailed Definition
A poet-worshipper is an individual—reader, critic, or fellow writer—who exhibits deep admiration or near-devotional reverence for a particular poet or poetic tradition, often attributing transcendent wisdom or artistic perfection to their work; this stance can influence interpretation, canon formation, and pedagogical emphasis, sometimes bordering on uncritical idealization within literary communities.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem written from the perspective of someone who idealizes or idolizes a particular poet; A poem whose speaker explicitly states their devotion to a poet and the inspiration they draw from their work; A poem that uses the imagery, metaphors, and style of a beloved poet to express the speaker's own feelings; A poem that describes the experience of reading a specific poet's work as a profound, almost religious, act.
Additional Notes
poet-worshipper: An individual who shows excessive or devoted admiration for a particular poet or poetry in general; sometimes associated with an overly earnest or uncritical appreciation of a poet's work.
Also Known As
bard devotee poet follower wordsmith disciple
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