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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splice

Craft Terms
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

Splice means to join two ends together neatly; in poetry, it can suggest the joining of separate lines, voices, or meanings into one continuous form.

Detailed Definition
Literally, splice is a term from ropework, weaving, and film or digital editing. In poetry, it may describe a seamless transition or an intentional joining of fragments. It suits craft terms because it emphasizes skillful connection and continuity.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may splice together two unrelated images to create a striking, unexpected juxtaposition; Film splicing techniques inspire poems that cut between scenes like a montage; A poem about grafted trees might use splicing to explore hybridity and blended identity; Splicing rope in sailing poems can symbolize skillful repair under difficult conditions; A poet describing genetics might use gene splicing as metaphor for inherited and altered traits; Splicing dialogue from multiple speakers creates a polyphonic effect in documentary poetry.
Additional Notes
Splice describes the neat joining of two ends, often borrowed from film editing and rope work, and is a useful term for discussing montage-like poetic techniques that cut between disparate scenes, voices, or images; instructors might explore how splicing imagery in poems about genetics or hybridity raises questions about identity formed from combined or altered origins, connecting the technical vocabulary of biology to poetic concerns about inheritance and change.
Also Known As
join intertwine graft unite
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