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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readymade verse

Form
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

An alternative term for poetry composed by reusing or reframing existing text

Detailed Definition
Readymade verse refers to poetry that incorporates pre-existing texts, found language, or everyday discourse—such as advertisements, legal documents, or overheard speech—into its composition with minimal alteration, challenging notions of originality and authorship; inspired by Duchamp’s “readymades,” this approach, used by poets like Kenneth Goldsmith or Vanessa Place, foregrounds context and framing as poetic acts in themselves.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Dada poetry, readymade verse uses found text like newspaper clippings as poetic material; Contemporary poet Kenneth Goldsmith transcribes weather reports as readymade verse; In “The Waste Land,” Eliot’s pub dialogue is readymade verse from real speech; Student exercise: turning a grocery list into readymade verse with line breaks; Readymade verse in conceptual poetry: court transcripts arranged as lyric.
Additional Notes
Readymade verse repurposes found text (ads, signs, transcripts) as poetry. Related to assemblage verse and procedural constraint. Select fragments with inherent rhythm or irony—editing, not authorship, is the creative act.
Also Known As
Reframed verse Pre-existing poetry Repurposed verse Readymade composition Found text
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