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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Abstract Ideas

Metaphysics
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

Concepts that exist in the mind rather than as physical objects. These include love, justice, time, and eternity that poets explore through non-literal language.

Detailed Definition
Abstract ideas form the foundation of metaphysical poetry, allowing poets to grapple with intangible human experiences. Rather than describing concrete events, metaphysical poets use imaginative comparisons to make philosophical concepts accessible, exploring how the mind confronts questions about existence, meaning, and the divine that cannot be reduced to physical phenomena.
Example
Example in poetry:
Plato’s Forms appear in Shelley’s “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty,” where beauty is an abstract, invisible power; In Emily Dickinson’s poetry, “Hope” is abstracted as “the thing with feathers”; John Donne’s “The Good-Morrow” treats love as an abstract realm beyond physical geography; Wallace Stevens’ “The Idea of Order at Key West” explores the abstract nature of imagination versus reality; T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” meditates on abstract concepts like time, stillness, and eternity; Rumi’s mystical verses often personify abstract divine love as a guiding, invisible force.
Additional Notes
Abstract Ideas in metaphysics refer to non-physical concepts like justice, truth, or beauty that exist beyond sensory experience; in poetry, especially metaphysical poetry (e.g., Donne, Herbert), these ideas are often rendered tangible through elaborate conceits that bridge the immaterial and the concrete, allowing readers to grasp philosophical notions through vivid imagery and emotional resonance.
Also Known As
Abstract Concepts Universal Ideas Non-empirical Notions
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