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 C

Citrine

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 yellow to golden quartz associated with joy, energy, and abundance.

Detailed Definition
Citrine’s sunny hue makes it a poetic emblem of optimism, creativity, and intellectual warmth. Unlike cooler stones, citrine radiates approachable light, symbolizing the golden hour or inner fire. Poets use it to convey resilience through brightness—turning hardship into gold—or to celebrate the simple, luminous moments of daily life often overlooked in darker verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet writes, “Citrine is bottled sunlight—pour it when winter comes”; Victorian verse uses it to symbolize intellectual warmth and cheer; modern poetry likens it to “the golden hour of memory”; in a poem about abundance, citrine is “joy you can hold in your palm”; its solar energy appears in verses on creativity and optimism; unlike diamond’s cold fire, citrine radiates approachable light.
Additional Notes
Citrine is a yellow to golden-brown quartz, often heat-treated amethyst; associated with abundance, clarity, and solar energy, its warm tones make it a symbol of optimism and mental focus—natural citrine is rare, so its artificial prevalence can also prompt reflections on authenticity versus appearance.
Also Known As
yellow quartz prosperity stone merchant's gem Amber
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