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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Star-pattern form

Form
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 visual poem arranged in a star-like radial pattern, where spatial layout reinforces thematic or symbolic meaning.

Detailed Definition
Star-pattern form is a poetic structure where lines or words are arranged visually to resemble a star, with text radiating from a center point or distributed in stellar patterns. This concrete poetry technique uses visual shape as part of meaning, making the poem's form embody or reinforce its content. Star-pattern form is particularly appropriate for poems about stars, cosmology, radiance, or themes of centrality and radiation. The visual impact contributes to reader experience and interpretation, creating a work that functions simultaneously as text and image, where the reading path and visual perception interact to create meaning.
Example
Example in poetry:
Star-pattern form arranges stanzas like constellations: center stanza surrounded by four short ones; In concrete poetry, star-pattern form uses asterisks as visual guides; Contemporary poet uses star-pattern form for five-point meditation; Student exercise: star-pattern form with central line “I am here” and radiating memories; Another: star-pattern form mapping family diaspora.
Additional Notes
Star-pattern form|A poetic form arranged visually like a star or radiating structure; emphasises symmetry and radiance.
Also Known As
celestial schema constellation layout astral structure Constellational form
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