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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ruptured 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

Verse characterized by abrupt fractures—syntactic, thematic, or rhythmic—mimicking trauma, fragmentation, or the disruption of conventional order.

Detailed Definition
Ruptured verse employs violent breaks in form—abrupt lineation, syntactic collapse, or typographical disruption—to embody trauma, protest, or existential fracture; it rejects aesthetic harmony in favor of raw, unmediated expression that mirrors social or psychic disintegration.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” ruptured verse appears in the jarring shift from nursery rhyme to Holocaust imagery; In M. NourbeSe Philip’s “Zong!”, ruptured verse shatters legal text to expose violence; In Caroline Bergvall’s “Drift,” ruptured verse responds to migrant crisis through linguistic fragmentation; In Susan Howe’s “Debths,” ruptured verse uses visual spacing to disrupt reading flow
Additional Notes
Ruptured verse uses violent breaks in syntax, rhythm, or logic to convey trauma, crisis, or rebellion; it rejects coherence as a political or aesthetic stance.
Also Known As
Torn stanza Severed line Breached composition Disjunctive line break Fragmented form
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