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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Visio

Rhetorical Devices
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 vivid description of an imagined, prophetic, dreamlike, or supernatural scene. It gives visionary experience concrete verbal form.

Detailed Definition
Visio presents an inward sight as though it were directly visible, often describing dreams, revelations, future events, or scenes beyond ordinary reality. A poet may see the dead returning, a ruined city restored, or a future self standing in an unfamiliar landscape. Detailed sensory language makes the vision persuasive and immediate. The device can create awe, dread, spiritual intensity, or uncertainty, especially when readers cannot tell whether the vision is prophecy, memory, fantasy, or emotional projection.
Example
Example in poetry:
Yeats’s “The Second Coming” presents a visio when the speaker sees “a shape with lion body and the head of a man” approaching from the desert; Blake’s “The Tyger” creates a visionary sight of the burning animal forged in “the forests of the night”; “I see the city after the flood, its towers rising like reeds from water” uses a future vision to make a warning vivid; “Before dawn, she saw the battlefield emptied of banners and filled with white birds” presents an imagined scene as if it were visible; “I saw tomorrow standing at the gate, carrying a lantern and a list of names” gives an abstract future a dramatic visual form
Additional Notes
Visio presents a scene as though it were directly seen in a dream, prophecy, trance, afterlife, or supernatural encounter. Medieval religious poetry often uses visions to reveal moral or spiritual truths, while modern poets may use them for psychological insight. Concrete sensory detail helps the imagined revelation feel immediate; related forms include dream vision and apocalypse.
Also Known As
Vision
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