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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Praising

Adjective
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

Describing verse that conveys admiration, reverence, or celebratory tone, often through elevated diction or laudatory imagery.

Detailed Definition
An adjective describing language, tone, or verse that expresses praise, admiration, commendation, or laudatory sentiment. Praising poetry celebrates worthy subjects, expresses approval, or honors achievements and virtues. This quality characterizes occasional verse, encomiums, panegyrics, and ceremonial poetry. Praising tone may range from sincere tribute to conventional flattery. Related to epideictic rhetoric's function of praise and blame in ceremonial contexts.
Example
Example in poetry:
Pindar’s Olympian Odes praise athletic victors with elevated diction; Ben Jonson’s “To Penshurst” praises the Sidney estate as moral ideal; Walt Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing” praises laborers’ varied songs; Gwendolyn Brooks’ “Paul Robeson” praises the actor’s “deep-down song”; Tracy K. Smith’s “Declaration” ironically subverts praising by quoting the Declaration of Independence; Natalie Diaz’s “Ode to Frida Kahlo’s Eyebrows” praises through intimate, embodied detail.
Additional Notes
Describes tone and purpose. Common in epideictic rhetoric and occasional poetry. Related to celebration and commemoration.
Also Known As
Laudatory Encomiastical Panegyrical Commendatory Celebratory
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