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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Surrounding imagery

Imagery
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

Imagery that defines the encompassing environment or atmosphere around a central subject, establishing mood or context.

Detailed Definition
Surrounding imagery consists of descriptive details that envelop a central image or subject, creating an atmospheric or contextual halo that deepens its emotional or symbolic resonance; rather than focusing narrowly, this technique uses peripheral sensory data—background sounds, ambient light, adjacent objects—to situate the focal point within a lived, multidimensional space, as in haiku that imply seasons through contextual kigo words.
Example
Example in poetry:
Surrounding imagery envelops a central image with contextual details: In “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats surrounds the bird with “beechen green” and “embalmed darkness”; A poem about a candle includes “melted wax pooling on oak,” “flickering shadows on plaster,” “scent of beeswax and old books”; Surrounding imagery in haiku: “old pond / frog jumps in / sound of water” — the pond and sound frame the frog; “Winter branches etch the sky, / crows call, / snow hushes the road” — sky, crows, snow surround implied traveler.
Additional Notes
Surrounding imagery|The descriptive details, metaphors, and sensory language that contextually frame and enrich a central idea, character, or action within a poem; creates the setting and atmosphere.
Also Known As
Encircling imagery Surrounding vision Enveloping picture Ambient imagery
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