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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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 broad body of water separating an island from the mainland, or a long, wide inlet; also, the act of measuring depth.

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Sound Devices in Poetry — Sound devices are the patterns of speech that make a poem memorable to the ear as well as meaningful on the page. This guide explains how to hear alliteration, assonance, consonance and other effects, and how to describe what they do without reducing sound to a checklist.

Detailed Definition
The sound is a sheltered stretch of water, not as open as the sea nor as enclosed as a harbor, offering relatively safe passage between landmasses. In poetry, it symbolizes a middle ground, a corridor of transit that is neither fully wild nor entirely domesticated. Sounds are often scenic, bordered by visible shores, and thus represent manageable distances and achievable journeys. Poets use the sound to evoke a sense of security tempered by the open horizon, a place where one can still see land while tasting the salt of the deep. Its dual meaning—also referring to the act of sounding depth—adds layers of inquiry and vigilance.
Example
Example in poetry:
The sound in poetry symbolizes a middle ground, a corridor of transit that is neither fully wild nor entirely domesticated.; Sounds are often scenic, bordered by visible shores, and thus represent manageable distances and achievable journeys.; Poets use the sound to evoke a sense of security tempered by the open horizon.; Its dual meaning—also referring to the act of sounding depth—adds layers of inquiry and vigilance.; A sound is a broad body of water separating an island from the mainland, or a long, wide inlet.; It is a sheltered stretch of water, offering relatively safe passage between landmasses.
Additional Notes
A sound is a broad body of water separating an island from the mainland, or a wide inlet. In poetry, it symbolizes a middle ground, a corridor of transit that is neither fully wild nor entirely domesticated. Sounds are often scenic, bordered by visible shores, representing manageable distances and achievable journeys. Poets use the sound to evoke a sense of security tempered by the open horizon. Its dual meaning—also referring to the act of measuring depth ("sounding")—adds layers of inquiry and vigilance to the term. It is a sheltered passage, a place where one can see land while tasting the salt of the deep.
Also Known As
Channel strait inlet narrows glór soud
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