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

Separating conjunction

Device
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 conjunction that divides or contrasts elements rather than joining them smoothly

Detailed Definition
Separating conjunction is a connective word that emphasizes division while technically linking elements. Conjunctions like but or yet join clauses while highlighting opposition, making the connection itself a marker of difference or conflict rather than simple addition or continuation.
Example
Example in poetry:
Separating conjunction appears in Milton’s “Paradise Lost”: “Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death”; In Whitman’s catalogs: “The negro holds firmly the reins of his four horses… the lunatic is carried at last to the asylum”; In Ginsberg’s “Howl”: “who sank all night in submarine light… who barreled down the highways”; In contemporary poet Claudia Rankine: “You are not the guy, but still you are”; In Ocean Vuong: “I was once a boy, and then I was a man”.
Additional Notes
Conjunction emphasizing division rather than connection. Common in dialectical poetry. Creates clear contrasts between opposed elements.
Also Known As
Dividing conjunction Separating connector Splitting link Fragmenting and/or Dirimens copulatio
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