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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Tableau

Performance
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 deliberately held still image created by one or more performers. It can mark a scene, emotion, or turning point in a poem.

Detailed Definition
A tableau is a moment of arranged stillness that allows the audience to read bodies as if they were an image on a page. In group poetry performance, performers may freeze in positions that suggest a family photograph, public monument, battlefield, classroom, or private memory. The still image can introduce a poem, separate sections, or intensify a final line. Because it interrupts movement, tableau gives visual emphasis and invites reflective attention.
Example
Example in poetry:
Several poets hold a frozen pose representing a family dinner while one speaker reads a poem about silence at the table; During a poem on climate change, performers form a still tableau of trees, then slowly lower their arms as the poem describes deforestation; A student group creates a tableau of commuters staring at phones before a poem about urban isolation begins; At the end of a persona poem about a photograph, the reader freezes in the posture described by the poem, making the final image visually memorable
Additional Notes
A tableau is a frozen stage picture that gives the audience time to read a moment visually. It is especially useful at emotional peaks, scene changes, or after an important line.
Also Known As
Frozen Picture Living Picture Stage Picture
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