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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stitch

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

Stitch means to sew with a needle and thread; in poetry, it can suggest joining fragments, repairing breaks, or building a poem line by line.

Detailed Definition
In literal craft, stitch is one of the basic actions of sewing. In poetry, it often carries connotations of patient assembly, mending, and delicate construction. It belongs in craft language because poems may be imagined as sewn together from separate pieces.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may describe stitching a wound as metaphor for healing after trauma; Embroidery and stitching imagery often appear in poems celebrating women's traditional crafts; A poem about memory might describe stitching together fragments of the past into narrative; Sutures stitched after surgery can symbolize fragile, ongoing recovery in illness poetry; A poet describing quilts might use stitching to represent generational connection and care; Stitched seams in clothing can serve as quiet metaphor for holding together a fraying life.
Additional Notes
Stitch emphasizes the joining of fragments through careful, often painstaking labor, closely associated with sewing, embroidery, and other traditionally domestic crafts; instructors might explore how stitching imagery in poems about memory or trauma suggests both the possibility of healing and the visible evidence of past injury, since a stitched wound, unlike an unmarked one, always bears a trace of what was broken and repaired.
Also Known As
sew embroider tack hem
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