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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Pointillism

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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 painting technique using small dots of color that blend in the viewer's eye. In poetry, it can describe meaning built from small, distinct details.

Detailed Definition
Pointillism is a late nineteenth-century painting method in which tiny, separate dots of color are placed close together so that the viewer's eye blends them into larger forms and tones. A pointillist poem may consist of brief observations, sensory particles, or discontinuous images that accumulate into an emotional or narrative whole. The technique emphasizes active reading, since coherence arises from the reader's participation in connecting seemingly separate details.
Example
Example in poetry:
A pointillist poem builds a larger scene from tiny, precise details, such as separate descriptions of raindrops, traffic lights, shoe soles, and window reflections; William Carlos Williams’s short imagist poems often let carefully placed visual details create a whole scene without extensive explanation; In “In a Station of the Metro,” Ezra Pound’s brief image of faces as petals works like a concentrated cluster of visual points; A poet can describe a summer garden through isolated color marks—yellow pollen, blue iris, red beetle, white stone—before revealing the full landscape; A grief poem may gather small sensory points, such as a silent phone, a folded coat, and dust in sunlight, to form an emotional picture
Additional Notes
Pointillism suggests a poem built from precise, separate observations rather than broad explanation. Repeated sensory details may accumulate into an emotional or thematic whole, asking readers to make connections. It relates to imagism, detail, and juxtaposition.
Also Known As
Divisionism
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