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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progressive aspect

Concept
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

A verb aspect indicating ongoing or continuous action, often used to convey immediacy, duration, or unfolding experience in verse.

Detailed Definition
Progressive aspect is a grammatical form indicating action currently in progress or ongoing rather than completed, typically expressed in English through the present or past participle with auxiliary verbs. In poetry, choosing progressive aspect affects temporal texture and creates effects of immediacy, presence, or duration. Progressive forms can make past events feel present, emphasize process over completion, or suggest the unfinished nature of experience. The aspectual choices poets make significantly influence how readers perceive time, action, and the relationship between events, contributing to the poem's philosophical stance toward temporality and experience.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “The Raven,” Poe’s “And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain” uses progressive aspect (“rustling”) to sustain tension; In “Song of Myself,” Whitman’s “I am sounding my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world” employs progressive aspect for ongoing action; Contemporary poet Claudia Rankine uses “you are standing” in “Citizen” to emphasize continuous racial exposure; In “Ode to the West Wind,” Shelley’s “wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being” uses progressive aspect to animate nature; Progressive aspect in haiku: “falling leaves / cover the path / still walking.”
Additional Notes
progressive aspect|The grammatical aspect that indicates continuous or ongoing action; conveys process rather than completion.
Also Known As
continuous tense ongoing mode durative form Continuative aspect
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