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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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Rest

Musical 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

A rest is a deliberate silence or pause in music, indicated by specific symbols.

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How to Read Poetry Aloud — Reading poetry aloud is not about sounding theatrical. It is a way of listening more closely to how sentences, lines, rhythms, sounds and silences work together.

Detailed Definition
Poets use rest to describe intentional silences, caesuras, or white space that punctuate the text, creating dramatic effect or breathing room. In performance or visual poetry, rests heighten anticipation or reflection. From notation, rests are as meaningful as sound. They enrich verse by teaching the power of absence, allowing words to resonate in quiet. Rest’s literary value lies in rhythmic control and emotional punctuation, transforming potential emptiness into expressive space that deepens impact and mirrors music’s strategic use of silence for contrast and emphasis.
Example
Example in poetry:
Rest creates meaningful silence: "after the shout, a rest — white space where echo lingers unspoken."; Poets use caesura, line breaks, or blank space as rests for drama or reflection.; Educational: insert strategic rests in drafts to heighten impact of surrounding words.; Rest teaches power of absence in rhythm and emotion.; In visual poetry, rests are literal gaps.; Example: elegy with increasing rests toward final quiet.
Additional Notes
Rest indicates deliberate silence or pause via caesura, white space, or line breaks, as meaningful as sound for drama and reflection. Tip: insert strategic rests to heighten surrounding words. Teaches power of absence. Students mark rests in performance texts. Rest transforms potential emptiness into expressive space for contrast and emphasis.
Also Known As
Pause Take a breather baith repose
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