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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press

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

Press means to apply force or flatten something; in poetry, it can suggest insistence, compression, or the shaping of language under pressure.

Detailed Definition
Literally, press describes the act of forcing one surface against another or flattening material. In poetry, it may indicate emotional pressure, formal compression, or the idea of words being worked into shape. It belongs to craft terms because it evokes physical shaping and disciplined making.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may describe pressing flowers between book pages as an image of preserving fleeting memory; Pressing grapes into wine can serve as metaphor for transforming raw experience into art; A poem about grief might describe the pressing weight of absence on the chest; Printing presses appear in poems about the power and permanence of the written word; A poet describing an embrace might use pressing close together to convey intimacy; Pressed wildflowers in an old letter can anchor a poem about a distant or lost relationship.
Additional Notes
Press suggests both physical force and figurative insistence, often used to describe compression of meaning or emotion within tight poetic forms; the term is closely associated with printing presses and the permanence of the written word, and instructors might explore how pressing imagery, such as pressed flowers preserved between book pages, connects the physical act of preservation to poetry's own function as a means of preserving fleeting experience.
Other Meanings of “press”
Also Known As
compress flatten iron squeeze Clothes Press Cupboard Linen Press
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