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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scattered 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

Poetry with words or lines spatially distributed across the page

Detailed Definition
Scattered verse is poetry with words, lines, or textual elements distributed across the page in non-linear arrangements rather than conventional left-aligned stanzas. This spatial distribution becomes part of the poem's meaning, with white space and positioning contributing to interpretation. Scattered verse may suggest fragmentation, plurality, or the inadequacy of linear progression for representing certain experiences. The reader must navigate the visual field rather than following a predetermined path, creating active engagement with the text's spatial dimension. This form is related to concrete poetry and reflects modernist and postmodernist interest in exploring the page as visual space.
Example
Example in poetry:
In concrete poetry, scattered verse arranges words spatially like raindrops; In “Howl,” Ginsberg’s margin shifts create scattered verse on the page; Contemporary digital poetry uses scattered verse across screen; Student exercise: poem with words drifting diagonally like falling leaves; Another: scattered verse mimicking starfield with isolated words.
Additional Notes
scattered verse|Verse where lines are dispersed or irregularly spaced; often visually experimental and spatially expressive.
Also Known As
fragmented lyric dispersed stanza decentered poetry Constellation poem Dispersed verse Intermittent verse
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