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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Validation

Psychology
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

The experience of having one's feelings or identity recognized as understandable and real.

Detailed Definition
Validation does not require agreement with every action; it acknowledges that an inner experience has causes and deserves to be heard. Poetry may seek it through testimony, an answering voice, a witnessed wound, or the simple phrase, "I believe you." Its absence can make pain feel unreal or shameful, while its presence can restore continuity between private feeling and shared reality, allowing the speaker to stop proving that the experience happened.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem can validate grief by naming it as a natural response rather than telling the speaker to recover quickly; In a dialogue poem, one character may validate another by repeating their feelings without judgment; Walt Whitman’s expansive treatment of ordinary lives can be read as poetic validation of experiences often ignored; An ending that says a frightened speaker’s feelings make sense can provide emotional validation without solving the problem.
Additional Notes
Validation means recognizing a feeling or identity as understandable and real, even without agreeing with every interpretation or behavior. In poems, validation may come through a witness, a remembered voice, or self-acceptance. It contrasts with dismissal and emotional invalidation.
Also Known As
Affirmation Acknowledgment Confirmation
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