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 V

Visual-textual composition

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

A hybrid poetic work integrating visual elements (e.g., images, shapes, or layout) with textual content to create layered meaning.

Detailed Definition
An umbrella term for poetry that integrates visual and verbal elements, where spatial arrangement, visual design, or graphic components contribute to meaning alongside words. This includes concrete poetry where words form shapes, emblem verse pairing images with text, pattern poems, calligrams, illustrated verse, and any work where visual presentation is integral rather than decorative. Apollinaire's calligrams, E.E. Cummings' spatially arranged verses, and George Herbert's shaped poems exemplify this. Visual-textual composition challenges boundaries between literature and visual art, requiring readers to engage both verbal content and visual form.
Example
Example in poetry:
Concrete poetry where words form visual shapes; Apollinaire's calligrams; E.E. Cummings' spatially arranged verses; Pattern poems integrating visual design with verbal content
Additional Notes
Umbrella term for poetry integrating visual and verbal elements. Includes concrete poetry, emblem verse, illustrated poetry, and pattern poems. Challenges boundary between visual art and literature. Consider how spatial arrangement and visual design contribute to meaning alongside words.
Also Known As
Concrete poetry Visual poetry Pattern poem Image-text hybrid Emblem poem
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