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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Crystal

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 solid material with a highly ordered molecular structure, often used in religious contexts as a symbol of purity, clarity, and divine light.

Detailed Definition
In various spiritual traditions, crystals are believed to have healing and focusing properties. Poetically, the crystal is a multifaceted symbol. Its clarity represents a mind purified of defilements, transparent to divine truth. Its geometric structure symbolizes the perfect order and intelligence underlying creation. Its ability to refract light makes it a metaphor for the way the singular, white light of the divine breaks into the many-colored spectrum of creation. It is an image of spiritual perfection, radiance, and the soul's latent potential for flawless beauty.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Tibetan Buddhist poetry, crystal symbolizes clarity of mind: “The mind like crystal—thoughts pass through, leave no stain”; In Sufi verse, the heart is a crystal cup for divine wine: “Polish your heart—let it hold the Light without distortion”; In New Age poetry, crystal channels energy: “Hold quartz to your third eye—truth hums”; Contemporary poets use crystal to describe transparency: “Our love—clear as crystal, strong as diamond.”
Additional Notes
Crystals symbolize clarity, divine order, and revelation—seen in Ezekiel’s throne vision, Islamic descriptions of paradise, or Tibetan Buddhist mandalas; their geometric perfection reflects cosmic harmony; in poetry, crystals evoke transparency of mind, frozen time, or the refractive nature of truth seen through multiple facets.
Other Meanings of “Crystal”
Also Known As
Crystal Ball Scrying Stone
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