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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I want.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the 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.

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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tombstone poetry

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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

Epitaphic verse inscribed on gravestones, typically brief, commemorative, and reflective of mortality.

Detailed Definition
All poetry written for tombs, gravestones, and burial monuments, encompassing epitaphs, memorial verses, and commemorative inscriptions. Must be brief enough for practical carving while meaningful and enduring across time. Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" meditates on this tradition. Should honor deceased while speaking meaningfully to contemporary mourners and future generations encountering monument. Tombstone poetry balances public commemoration with personal grief, brevity with significance, and timeless relevance with specific historical particulars of individual lives.
Example
Example in poetry:
Tombstone poetry condenses life into epitaph: Ben Jonson’s “On My First Son” (“For whose sake, henceforth, all his vows be such”); Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death”; contemporary examples include A.E. Stallings’ “Elegy for a Little Girl, Drowned”; Robert Frost’s “In a Disused Graveyard”; epitaphs in Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters.
Additional Notes
All poetry written for tombs, gravestones, and burial monuments. Includes epitaphs, memorial verses, and commemorative inscriptions. Must be brief enough for carving while meaningful and enduring. Thomas Gray's churchyard meditations explore this tradition. Should honor the deceased while speaking to future readers.
Also Known As
epitaphic verse gravestone poetry sepulchral verse memorial carving
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