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

Home › Glossary › Letter S

Screenprint

Art
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 printing method that pushes ink through a mesh stencil onto a surface.

Detailed Definition
Screenprinting produces bold, repeatable images with areas of flat color and crisp graphic contrast. It has been used for posters, textiles, political graphics, commercial design, and fine art. In poetry, screenprint can suggest a method of layering repeated language, slogans, and visual blocks. A screenprinted poem may explore mass culture or protest by repeating a phrase until its familiar public meaning becomes unstable, ironic, or newly urgent.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet can imitate a screenprint by using bold blocks of color, as in a city poem built from “red bus, blue raincoat, yellow sign”; Repeated images in short stanzas can resemble the layered process of screenprinting; A poem about protest posters may use sharp slogans and high-contrast images to echo screenprint art; A writer can describe ink pressed through a mesh screen to explore how private feeling becomes public art
Additional Notes
Screenprinting forces ink through open areas of a fine mesh while blocked areas act as a stencil. Separate screens can be used for different colours, making the process suitable for bold, repeatable images on paper, fabric, and many other surfaces. It became especially prominent in twentieth-century commercial design and Pop Art, notably through artists such as Andy Warhol. Repetition can itself become expressive. Compare silkscreen, stencil, printmaking, edition, registration, Pop Art, poster art, textile printing, graphic design, and serial imagery.
Also Known As
Silkscreen Serigraph Screen Printing
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