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

Home › Glossary › Letter R

Recto

Printing
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

The right-hand page of an open book, usually bearing an odd page number. It is the front side of a leaf.

Detailed Definition
Recto refers to the front side of a leaf in a codex and, in books read from left to right, usually appears as the right-hand page of an opening. It normally carries an odd page number. Poetry books often use recto pages for major openings, such as the first poem in a section or the start of a new sequence. The relation between recto and its facing verso page can shape pacing, juxtaposition, and the use of intentional blank space.
Example
Example in poetry:
In a left-to-right book, the recto is the right-hand page, usually bearing an odd page number; A poet may choose to begin each major section on a recto page for emphasis; When opening a book, a poem on page 17 appears on a recto page; A title page is commonly printed on a recto page, with publication information often placed on the verso behind it
Additional Notes
Recto refers to the right-hand page in an open codex book. Because recto pages are normally odd numbered, major divisions and title pages are often designed to begin on recto.
Also Known As
Right-Hand Page Front Side
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