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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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Arabic love poem

Genre
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 poem in Arabic tradition centered on themes of love, passion, and longing.

Detailed Definition
An Arabic love poem is a lyrical composition rooted in the rich tradition of Arabic poetry, often drawing from the qasida or ghazal forms to explore themes of unrequited love, longing, and idealized beauty; characterized by intricate rhyme, emotional intensity, and symbolic imagery (like the beloved’s tent or desert journey), it reflects both personal passion and cultural conventions.
Example
Example in poetry:
“My love is like a gazelle / seen at dawn on the hills of Moab” (adapted from Arabic ghazal tradition); “Your eyes have stolen my reason, / and your hair has ensnared my soul” (Imru’ al-Qais); “I weep for Layla though her tribe denies me— / my tears flow like the Euphrates at flood” (classical Arabic nasib); “If you pass by the ruins of my beloved’s camp, / greet them and linger, for memory lives there” (traditional Arabic opening of qasida).
Additional Notes
Arabic love poem often uses ghazal conventions: radif, qafiya, and themes of unattainable love. Study with Persian lyric tradition for cross-cultural motifs.
Also Known As
Ghazal qasida of love Arabic amorous lyric desert love song Ghāzal
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