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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Contemplative

Mood
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 reflective mood characterized by deep thought, stillness, and inward-looking awareness, often evoking spiritual or philosophical insight.

Detailed Definition
Contemplative mood in poetry invites deep reflection on life, nature, or metaphysical questions, often using measured pace and precise imagery; it appears in pastoral verse, philosophical lyrics, and spiritual poetry—from Rumi to Mary Oliver—where silence and observation become pathways to insight, encouraging readers to slow down and engage with the unseen dimensions of existence.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” Wordsworth reflects contemplatively on memory and nature’s moral influence; Emily Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died” offers a quiet, contemplative view of death’s moment; In “Meditation at Lagunitas,” Robert Hass contemplates language, loss, and presence with philosophical depth; Wallace Stevens’ “The Snow Man” invites contemplative detachment from emotional projection onto nature; In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” moments of stillness (“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons”) reveal contemplative despair; Mary Oliver’s “When Death Comes” begins with a contemplative musing on mortality’s many forms.
Additional Notes
Contemplative mood reflects thoughtful, meditative reflection; often uses measured pace, rhetorical questions, and nature imagery—central to lyric poetry from Wordsworth to Mary Oliver; related to pensive, serene, and reverent moods; avoid confusing with detached, which lacks emotional engagement.
Also Known As
Reflective Meditative Thoughtful Pensive Introspective Mystic modgeþanc
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