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

Home › Glossary › Letter T

Truncated elevated lyric

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

An elevated lyric poem deliberately shortened or condensed, retaining formal diction and thematic weight despite its brevity.

Detailed Definition
A brief poem employing elevated style, formal diction, and serious tone within compressed form, typically under fifteen lines. This combination challenges the poet to achieve grandeur and dignity within minimal space, requiring intense concentration of elevated language and significant subject matter without the expansive development that traditionally accompanies high style, useful for developing range and demonstrating that elevation need not depend on length alone.
Example
Example in poetry:
Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –” is a truncated elevated lyric—abruptly ending with mundane interruption; John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet X” (“Death, be not proud”) is elevated but truncated in its final couplet’s reversal; Sylvia Plath’s “Edge” (“The woman is perfected”) truncates elegy into chilling finality; W.B. Yeats’ “Leda and the Swan” ends mid-trauma, truncating mythic lyric; Lucille Clifton’s “at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation” truncates elegy with “the ground is wet with our tears / and theirs”; Ocean Vuong’s “Aubade with Burning City” truncates love lyric with falling bombs—elevated yet cut short.
Additional Notes
Brief poem in elevated style. Combines compression with grandeur. Challenges ability to maintain high tone in short form. Useful exercise for developing range.
Also Known As
Brief elevated poem Short sublime verse Compressed high style Minimal grand poem Elliptical ode
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