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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Tree-ring form

Structure
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 structural design where a poem's sections radiate outward like tree rings, each layer adding chronological or thematic depth, suggesting organic growth and memory.

Detailed Definition
Tree-ring form: Poetic structure organized in concentric layers that accumulate around a central core, analogous to annual growth rings in wood. Each layer represents a complete temporal cycle or developmental stage while remaining permanently visible in the poem's architecture, creating a record of successive phases that readers can trace from center outward.
Example
Example in poetry:
Tree-ring form appears in Annie Dillard’s poetic prose in “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” where cyclical observations mimic annual growth; in A.R. Ammons’s “Garbage,” long lines coil like rings around ecological decay; contemporary poet Camille T. Dungy’s “Trophic Cascade” uses concentric stanzas to reflect ecosystem layers; W.S. Merwin’s late poems in “The Shadow of Sirius” use unpunctuated, ring-like repetitions to evoke memory; Indigenous poet Joy Harjo’s “An American Sunrise” structures time as concentric circles of history and return.
Additional Notes
Poetry structured in concentric layers like tree rings, with each ring representing temporal or thematic progression. Related to annual-ring composition.
Also Known As
Concentric form Ring-pattern structure Circular layering Growth-circle architecture Dendrochronologic form
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