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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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Cleopas

Biblical
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

One of the two disciples who encountered the resurrected Jesus during the journey to Emmaus, as recounted in the Gospel of Luke.

Detailed Definition
Cleopas, joined by another, failed to recognize the risen Christ until He broke bread. Their encounter reveals Jesus’ presence in Scripture and sacrament. In poetry, Cleopas represents the journey from despair to recognition, the hidden Christ who walks with the grieving, and the moment of revelation that transforms doubt into worship—often evoking pilgrimage and epiphany.
Example
Example in poetry:
In John Milton’s "Paradise Lost," Cleopas’s journey to Emmaus (Luke 24) illustrates recognition of Christ in Scripture; In George Herbert’s "The Church-porch," Cleopas’s eyes opened at the table model revelation; In Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s "The Seraphim," Cleopas symbolizes the seeker who finds; In John Keble’s "Lyra Apostolica," Cleopas represents the pilgrim of faith; In Christina Rossetti’s "Advent," Cleopas’s road becomes a path of discovery; In T.S. Eliot’s "Four Quartets," Cleopas’s experience prefigures the intersection of time and eternity.
Additional Notes
Cleopas: Disciple who walked with Jesus to Emmaus (Luke 24:18); possibly Clopas (John 19:25). In poetry, Cleopas embodies the journey of disillusionment to recognition—ideal for poems on hidden Christ, scriptural illumination, or the eucharistic moment (“he was known in the breaking of bread”). His anonymity invites every reader to see themselves on the road to Emmaus.
Also Known As
Cleopas of Emmaus Clopas
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