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

voided line

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 line in a poem that is left blank or implied rather than written, symbolizing absence or silence

Detailed Definition
Voided line is a poetic line that appears visually or conceptually empty—through erasure, omission, or white space—yet carries significant thematic weight. This deliberate absence functions as a silent stanza, evoking loss, censorship, or the unspeakable, transforming the page’s blankness into an active element of meaning and emotional resonance.
Example
Example in poetry:
A line replaced by blank space: "I said goodbye— / [void] / —and never saw you again"; "Your last words were— / [empty line] / —I can’t remember"; "The photo shows us smiling— / [gap] / —before the accident"; "We planned to grow old— / [white space] / —you left in spring"
Additional Notes
voided line is a poetic line that appears visually or semantically empty—through omission, white space, or minimal content—to signify silence, rupture, or unspeakability; this technique is common in experimental and trauma-informed poetry where the void becomes expressive; students should consider whether the voided line interrupts rhythm, creates suspense, or mirrors psychological or historical gaps, as seen in works by M. NourbeSe Philip or Susan Howe.
Also Known As
erased line silent line blank verse line omitted utterance absent verse
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