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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reversible 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

A poem that can be read forward or backward with coherent meaning in both directions

Detailed Definition
Reversible verse is poetry crafted to maintain semantic coherence and poetic integrity when read in reverse—either line-by-line or word-for-word—often employing palindromes, chiasmus, or symmetric imagery; this form challenges linear temporality and invites readers to consider how directionality shapes meaning and emotional resonance.
Example
Example in poetry:
Any poem whose lines or sections can be read in reverse order to produce a new, different, or opposing meaning, such as the reverso form.; A line of verse that is a palindromic phrase or sentence, such as: "Madam, I'm Adam."; A series of couplets that describe a journey outward in the first half of the poem, and then describe the exact journey backward in the second half.; A poem made up of lines that are grammatically sound and meaningful both forward and backward, though this is extremely difficult.
Additional Notes
Reversible verse is a synonym for reversible poetry, referring to a poem whose lines or words can be read in reverse order to produce a new, meaningful, and often contrasting text.
Also Known As
Inverse verse reversible poetry two-way stanza Amphisbaenic Stanza Palindrome verse Palindromic verse Retrograde verse
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