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

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Communion

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 sacred ritual in Christianity reenacting the Last Supper, but also a state of intimate fellowship or sharing, especially with the divine.

Detailed Definition
In its specific Christian sense, Communion (the Eucharist) is the partaking of the body and blood of Christ. Symbolically, across traditions, communion represents the ultimate union—of the soul with God, of the individual with the community, or of the human with the natural world. In poetry, the desire for communion is a primary driver of devotional expression. The imagery of sharing a meal, merging, or becoming one captures the seeker's deepest yearning to overcome separation and experience a direct, tangible connection with the sacred source.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Christian poetry, Communion unites believers with Christ: “This bread—your body, broken like my doubt”; In Rumi’s verse, Communion is mystical union: “Drink the wine of love—cup and lip disappear”; In contemporary interfaith poetry, Communion becomes shared humanity: “At the table of strangers, we break one bread”; Poets use Communion to heal division: “Your hand, my hand—both reach for the same loaf.”
Additional Notes
Communion encompasses both the Eucharist and mystical union (unio mystica); in poetry, it evokes intimate sharing—of bread, breath, or being—with the divine or community; the breaking of bread becomes a symbol of vulnerability, unity, and sacrificial love, resonating across religious and secular humanist verse.
Also Known As
Eucharist Lord’s Supper Sacrament
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