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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Slender Man

Folklore
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

Modern internet-created entity, tall and faceless, stalking children in forests

Detailed Definition
Slender Man emerged from creepypasta and inspired real-world harm. In poetry, he embodies digital-age anxiety, the blurring of fiction and reality, and the archetype of the faceless predator, often used in postmodern or cautionary verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
Slender Man, internet-born phantom, appears in digital-age horror poetry: "Slender Man stands in static snow—faceless, tall, and always near"; Poets use him to explore online anxiety: "He lives in pixels, feeds on fear—Slender Man is childhood’s glitch"; In cautionary verse, he symbolizes viral myth: "Don’t search his name at midnight—Slender Man remembers every click"; His ambiguity reflects modern dread: "No origin, just endless woods—Slender Man is what we made"
Additional Notes
Slender Man: A modern digital-age creepypasta entity (created 2009), tall, faceless, and suited, stalking children in forests. Though not traditional folklore, he exemplifies “digital folklore” and memetic mythmaking. In poetry, he symbolizes internet anxiety, the erosion of childhood safety, and the power of collective storytelling. Useful in contemporary or postmodern verse—but distinguish from historical bogeymen; note real-world harm from his myth (e.g., 2014 stabbing).
Also Known As
Slenderman
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