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

Register Marks

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

Marks used to align separate printing colors or sides of a sheet. They help keep images and text in position.

Detailed Definition
Register marks are small targets, crosses, or other indicators placed outside the trimmed page area to help printers align multiple impressions accurately. They are especially necessary when separate colors, plates, or sides of a sheet must fall in exactly the same position. In illustrated poetry books or color broadsides, poor registration can cause words, borders, or images to appear doubled or shifted. Proper registration ensures that visual elements support the poem rather than becoming accidental distractions.
Example
Example in poetry:
A printer uses register marks to align the black text and red decorative title on a two-color poetry broadside; If register marks do not align, a colored image behind a poem may appear shifted or blurry; A poet printing a hand-bound zine can ask the printer to retain register marks until the front and back of each page are correctly aligned; In a letterpress edition, register marks help ensure that a border frames the poem evenly on every copy
Additional Notes
Register marks are alignment targets printed outside the final page area. Printers use them to keep colors, images, and both sides of a sheet accurately positioned during presswork.
Also Known As
Registration Marks
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