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

Home › Glossary › Letter P

Potentiality

Philosophy
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

The capacity of a person or thing to become otherwise or to act in ways not yet realized.

Detailed Definition
Potentiality gives poetry a vocabulary for futures that remain open, withheld, or unrealized. A seed, unfinished sentence, dormant desire, or promised departure can embody what is not yet actual without being mere absence. The concept also includes the power not to act, preserving refusal as a genuine possibility. Poems attentive to potentiality often use conditional tense, suspended syntax, and images of thresholds to keep becoming active within the present.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem about potentiality focuses on what a person or situation might become rather than only on what it currently is; A seed in a lyric can signify unrealized growth, while the poem keeps both flowering and failure possible; Aristotle’s distinction between potentiality and actuality can inspire a speaker who imagines several futures within one present choice; A broken instrument may still carry potentiality when the poem suggests music that has not yet been played
Additional Notes
Potentiality names what a person, practice, or thing can become or do, including possibilities that have not yet been realized. Aristotle distinguishes potentiality from actuality, while later thinkers use the term to question fixed identities and predetermined outcomes. In poetry, an unfinished image, conditional statement, or open ending may preserve potentiality. The concept is useful for discussing agency, transformation, futurity, and unrealized alternatives.
Also Known As
Possibility Potency Capacity Virtual
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