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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prepare

Craft Terms
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

Prepare means to make ready for use or action; in poetry, it can suggest the careful arranging of material before meaning fully emerges.

Detailed Definition
In literal use, prepare refers to getting something ready by shaping, ordering, or assembling it beforehand. In poetry, the term fits craft language because poems are often understood as prepared structures rather than accidental utterances. It can imply the quiet labor behind composition, where language is readied for its final form.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may prepare the reader for a volta through subtle shifts in tone across the octave; Ritual poems often describe preparing food or space as a meditative act preceding ceremony; A poet drafting formal verse must prepare by choosing meter and rhyme scheme before writing; Preparing a body for burial appears in elegy as a solemn, ritualistic image; A poem about gardening might describe preparing soil as metaphor for cultivating patience; Preparing for departure, packing a bag, can serve as a quiet opening image in a travel poem.
Additional Notes
Prepare emphasizes the careful arranging of material before meaning is fully realized, often used in discussions of ritual poetry, where preparatory acts such as preparing food, space, or the body for burial carry symbolic weight beyond their practical function; instructors might explore how preparation imagery in poetry often functions as a threshold moment, marking the transition between ordinary time and the heightened significance of ceremony or transformation.
Also Known As
ready prime set up arrange Clear the decks dight gird Set the stage
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