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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Poetic fragment

Form
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 poem that exists only in partial form, either due to historical loss or intentional artistic fragmentation.

Detailed Definition
A poetic fragment is an incomplete or deliberately truncated composition that evokes a larger, absent whole, often leveraging ellipsis, ambiguity, or ruinous aesthetics; Romantic poets like Coleridge used fragments to suggest the sublime’s inexpressibility, while modernists employed them to mirror psychological or cultural disintegration.
Example
Example in poetry:
Sappho’s Fragment 31 (“He seems to me equal to gods…”) is a poetic fragment evoking jealousy; Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” captures urban epiphany in two lines; modern example: Anne Carson’s “Nox” presents elegiac fragments after her brother’s death; poetic fragments imply lost wholes or intentional incompleteness; they’re common in trauma and modernist poetry; this form values suggestion over closure.
Additional Notes
Intentionally incomplete poem suggesting lost or unfinished work. Related to fragmentary forms generally. Can evoke Sappho's fragments. Creates sense of incompleteness or ruin. Consider whether fragment serves specific purpose.
Also Known As
Partial poem Broken verse Incomplete poetry Verse snippet Concrete snippet Incomplete poem verse segment
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