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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Template

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

A template is a repeatable formal pattern that guides the making of related poems or sections.

Detailed Definition
A template can be a stanza architecture, sequence of questions, catalog structure, or set of constraints used across a project. It creates expectations that each new poem can confirm, complicate, or break. In a sequence about one location, a shared template may make changes in season or speaker visible through controlled variation. The danger is mechanical sameness, so the poet should allow subject matter to deform the pattern. A useful template generates difference as actively as it generates order.
Example
Example in poetry:
A template is a chosen structure that guides composition without determining every word; A blank sonnet template can provide fourteen lines and a turn while leaving the subject open; A poet may use the template of a recipe, letter, or weather report to organize a lyric; Repeating the sentence frame “I remember” can serve as a template for a memory poem
Additional Notes
A template is a repeatable formal guide, such as a stanza pattern, question sequence, syllabic count, grammatical frame, or shared constraint. Templates can support a series by giving each poem a recognizable family resemblance while allowing variation in content and tone. Use one to reduce some composing decisions and concentrate on others. A template should generate possibilities, not become a substitute for discovery or revision.
Also Known As
Stencil Guide Jig pattern
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