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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Temporal fourteen-liner

Form
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 14-line poem organized around temporal or time-based divisions rather than traditional sonnet schemes

Detailed Definition
A temporal fourteen-liner is a poem of fourteen lines organized not by traditional sonnet rhyme or volta but by chronological progression—such as hours of a day, stages of life, or historical epochs—to explore time as structure; while resembling a sonnet in length, its logic is diachronic rather than argumentative, using lineation to map temporal experience, as in poems tracing a single day from dawn to dusk.
Example
Example in poetry:
A temporal fourteen-liner explores time within sonnet form: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 12 (“When I do count the clock that tells the time”); “Time does not bring relief” by Edna St. Vincent Millay uses sonnet to mourn time’s passage; “When You Are Old” by Yeats reflects on past, present, future love; Contemporary sonnets on climate change use form to frame temporal urgency.
Additional Notes
Temporal fourteen-liner|A poem of fourteen lines (like a sonnet) that has its theme and organization centrally focused on the passage of time, a specific moment, or chronological events.
Also Known As
Sonnet of time Temporal sonnet Time-bound fourteen-line poem Diachronic sonnet
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