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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Widow

Printing
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 short final line of a paragraph left alone at the top of a page. Printers often avoid widows through page adjustment.

Detailed Definition
A widow is a line stranded at the top of a page after the rest of its paragraph appears on the preceding page. The term is most often used in prose composition, but related page-break problems matter in poetry as well, particularly in notes, introductions, and prose poems. A printer or designer may alter spacing, leading, or page breaks to prevent the isolated line. Avoiding widows helps preserve visual balance and keeps textual units from appearing accidentally broken.
Example
Example in poetry:
A widow occurs when the last line of a stanza or paragraph is stranded alone at the top of the next page; If a single concluding line of a poem appears on a new page, a designer may revise spacing to avoid the widow; A widow can weaken the visual unity of a tightly shaped poem by separating its final line from the rest; A poet reviewing page proofs may ask the printer to move one earlier line so that a stanza does not end in a widow
Additional Notes
A widow is an isolated final line at the top of a new page, creating an awkward visual break. Designers may revise spacing, line breaks, or page composition to prevent it.
Also Known As
Widow Line
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