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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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Andradite

Gemstones
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 calcium iron garnet symbolizing strength, grounding, and transformation.

Detailed Definition
Andradite’s deep colors (black melanite, green demantoid) make it a poetic emblem of power in many forms. Poets use it to explore the alchemy of pressure—how iron (strength) and calcium (structure) forge beauty. It represents the foundation upon which transformation is built.
Example
Example in poetry:
In a poem about volcanic strength, andradite is “the black heart of the mountain, unyielding”; its green demantoid form appears in verses praising hidden brilliance: “Like demantoid in iron, your kindness gleams”; a modern elegy uses melanite (black andradite) to symbolize grief’s density; in alchemical poetry, andradite represents the fusion of earth (calcium) and fire (iron); its rarity makes it a metaphor for unacknowledged resilience; poets might contrast andradite’s toughness with emerald’s fragility to explore different kinds of strength.
Additional Notes
Andradite is a calcium iron garnet species that includes the vivid green demantoid and the rare black melanite; demantoid, in particular, is prized for its brilliance and “horsetail” inclusions—poets may use andradite to symbolize hidden fire, resilience, or the contrast between darkness and inner radiance.
Also Known As
calcium iron garnet variety black or green
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