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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I want.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the 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.

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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shard poetry

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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 composed as fragmented, disjointed pieces or “shards,” often reflecting trauma, modernity, or deconstructed narrative.

Detailed Definition
Shard poetry consists of fragmented, discontinuous lines or images that evoke brokenness, trauma, or partial memory, often eschewing narrative coherence for juxtaposition and ellipsis; inspired by archaeological or psychological metaphors, it presents language as splintered yet resonant with implied wholeness.
Example
Example in poetry:
Anne Carson’s “The Glass Essay” includes shard poetry—fragmented, sharp meditations on heartbreak; In “Autobiography of Red,” Carson uses shard poetry to depict trauma; Poet Fanny Howe’s “Second Childhood” employs shard poetry through broken syntax; Postmodern elegies often use shard poetry to convey grief’s fragmentation
Additional Notes
shard poetry: Poetry composed of short, fragmentary, or incomplete lines and images, often resembling broken pieces or glimpses of a larger whole; conveys a sense of breakdown, memory, or incomplete experience.
Also Known As
Fragment poetry shard verse broken-piece lyric Clastogenic verse
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