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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taper

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

Taper means to become gradually narrower or thinner; in poetry, it can suggest a controlled narrowing of form, intensity, or movement.

Detailed Definition
In literal craft, taper describes a shape that decreases steadily in width. In poetry, it may be used for images, lines, or emotional arcs that narrow toward an ending or point. It belongs in craft language because it gives a precise sense of formed reduction.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may describe a candle tapering to its end as metaphor for a life nearing its close; Tapered fingers in classical poetry often symbolize elegance or aristocratic beauty; A poem about diminishing hope might use a tapering flame as its central image; Architectural spires tapering skyward can symbolize aspiration or reaching toward the divine; A poet describing a river narrowing might use tapering to evoke gradual constriction or focus; A sonnet's tapering final lines can mirror the winding-down of its emotional argument.
Additional Notes
Taper describes gradual narrowing, often used to discuss the controlled diminishment of intensity, form, or life itself within a poem; instructors might explore how tapering imagery, such as a candle burning down or a river narrowing, provides a visual and temporal metaphor for endings that are gradual rather than abrupt, making it a useful term for discussing elegies and poems about aging or diminishing hope.
Also Known As
narrow taper off point reduce Candle caun'le
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