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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present-moment poetry

Genre
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

Verse stressing living in the moment, often with carpe diem echoes.

Detailed Definition
Present-moment poetry is a mode that foregrounds immediacy, sensory awareness, and temporal presence, often eschewing narrative, historical reference, or futurity in favor of capturing the fleeting essence of “now”; influenced by Zen aesthetics and phenomenology, such poetry—exemplified by haiku or certain works of William Carlos Williams—celebrates attention as an ethical and aesthetic act.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem that is written in the present tense and focuses solely on the speaker's thoughts, feelings, and environment as they are occurring; A poem that rejects reflection on the past or speculation about the future to anchor the reader in the "here and now"; A poem structured as a stream of consciousness of the current minute; A lyric that describes an immediate, ongoing event without historical context.
Additional Notes
present-moment poetry: Poetry that is preoccupied with the here and now, often capturing the transient nature of a single moment; related to Imagism or the concept of the epiphany in a temporal context.
Also Known As
Immediacy verse now-centered poetry real-time lyric Carpe diem poetry
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