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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Projectivist poets

Movement
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

Poets emphasizing open form, breath-based line, and dynamic composition

Detailed Definition
Projectivist poets are practitioners of Projective Verse, a mid-20th-century movement championed by Charles Olson that emphasizes breath-based composition, open field poetics, and the poem as energy transfer; rejecting closed forms, they treat the page as a field of action where typographic arrangement mirrors thought process and bodily rhythm.
Example
Example in poetry:
The group of American poets (such as Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, and Denise Levertov) who believed that a poem's form should be organic and projective, derived from the content and the poet's breath; Charles Olson's essay Projective Verse as the foundational text of the movement; Denise Levertov's emphasis on the importance of the breath and ear in determining line breaks; Robert Duncan's open field composition and use of long, energetic lines.
Additional Notes
Projectivist poets: Poets associated with the Projective Verse essay (Charles Olson, 1950), which advocated for open forms, breath-based rhythm, and the poem as a high-energy field; emphasizes the poet's own breathing as the metric guide.
Also Known As
Black Mountain poets projective verse writers Olson school poets Black Mountain Poets (US)
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