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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Structure
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 deliberate typographic or white-space break that separates major sections of a poem, signaling shifts in time, voice, or theme.

Detailed Definition
A section break is a typographical or spatial division—often indicated by asterisks, extra line spaces, or blank lines—that separates parts of a poem to signal shifts in time, perspective, tone, or subject; it provides structural clarity without formal stanzaic boundaries, enabling fluid transitions in long or fragmented poems.
Example
Example in poetry:
In "The Waste Land," T.S. Eliot uses asterisks and white space to mark section breaks between “The Burial of the Dead” and “A Game of Chess”; In Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese,” a stanza break functions as a section break shifting from address to imagery; Section breaks in H.D.’s "Trilogy" separate thematic movements with blank lines; In "Citizen," Rankine uses full-page breaks to shift between lyric and visual media
Additional Notes
Section break: A visual or conceptual pause in a poem, often indicated by extra space or an asterisk, that signals a significant shift in thought, time, speaker, or location; distinct from a simple stanza break; helps manage pace and transition.
Also Known As
Division break section ending segment break Asterism break
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