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 A

Ayah

World Religion
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 verse of the Quran, also meaning “sign” or “miracle,” reflecting divine communication and cosmic wonder.

Detailed Definition
Each ayah is both a textual unit and a pointer to God’s presence in scripture and creation—rain, a bee’s hive, or the human soul. In poetry, ayah blurs the line between revelation and nature: verses become stars, rivers, or breath. Poets quote or echo Quranic ayat to anchor their work in sacred truth, or use the concept to suggest that every moment holds a divine message for those who reflect.
Example
Example in poetry:
A Quranic poem: “Each ayah is a star dropped from heaven to guide night travelers”; In a calligraphy verse: “The ayah curves like a river—drink, and you’ll never thirst for truth”; A modern reflection: “Some read ayah as command; I read it as invitation to wonder”; A poetic metaphor: “Ayat are seeds—plant them in silence, and forests of meaning grow.”
Additional Notes
An ayah is both a Quranic verse and a cosmic sign—Quranic cosmology treats natural phenomena (stars, rain) as “ayat” pointing to God’s wisdom. Each surah (chapter) contains multiple ayat, varying in length and rhetorical power. In classical tafsir (exegesis), ayat are analyzed for legal, theological, and literary dimensions. Poets quote ayat for their sonic beauty and layered meanings; Sufis read them esoterically. For literary scholars, understanding ayah as “sign” enriches readings of Islamicate poetry where nature and scripture intertwine as revelations.
Also Known As
Verse Sign Miracle
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