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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returning reference

Device
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 poetic technique where a later line recalls or echoes an earlier image, phrase, or idea to create cohesion or resonance.

Detailed Definition
A returning reference is an allusion or citation that reappears at intervals within a poem, gaining layered meaning with each recurrence; this technique creates intertextual depth, inviting readers to trace evolving relationships between the poem and its source materials across the work’s progression.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem that repeatedly alludes to the Garden of Eden in each stanza to explore themes of lost innocence and temptation.; A poet consistently mentioning "the pale moon" throughout a long poem to symbolize a distant, unchanging sorrow.; In a sequence of sonnets, each poem begins with a phrase like "Remembering the stone path," referring back to a shared memory.; An epic poem where the phrase "The hero's fatal flaw" is used as a thematic anchor at key plot points.
Additional Notes
An allusion, symbol, or descriptive phrase that is introduced, disappears for a time, and then reappears later in the poem to tie the sections together and complete a thought or cycle.
Also Known As
Recurring reference returning allusion echoing citation Call-back device Callback device
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