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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raft

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

Raft means a flat structure built to float on water; in poetry, it can suggest a makeshift support, a fragile crossing, or a platform of survival.

Detailed Definition
Literally, a raft is a simple floating structure made from bound materials. In poetry, it may symbolize provisional construction, precarious passage, or the idea of staying afloat through art. It belongs in craft terms because it reflects assembled utility and improvised making.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may describe a raft as a fragile vessel symbolizing survival amid uncertainty or crisis; Poems about migration often use rafts to evoke the precariousness of displacement across water; A poet describing childhood might use a makeshift raft on a pond as an image of youthful adventure; Raft imagery in refugee poetry conveys both hope and danger simultaneously; A poem about grief might describe being adrift on a raft as metaphor for emotional isolation; Rafting logs down a river can symbolize the passage of time carrying memory downstream.
Additional Notes
Raft describes a simple flat structure built to float, often used metaphorically to convey fragility, makeshift survival, and precarious crossing, particularly in poems about migration, displacement, and refugee experience; instructors might explore how raft imagery differs from more substantial vessel imagery like ships, emphasizing vulnerability and uncertainty rather than security, making it especially apt for poems that resist easy resolution or safe arrival.
Also Known As
float platform assemble raft
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