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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Dinar

Archaic Terms
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 gold or silver coin used in medieval Islamic lands, later a standard name for various currencies.

Detailed Definition
The dinar originated as a gold coin in early Islamic caliphates, its name derived from the Roman denarius, and became a widely recognised unit of trade in the medieval Mediterranean and Middle East. In poetry, “dinar” signals an Oriental or Islamic setting—bazaars, caravans, and the splendours of courts in Baghdad or Córdoba. Poets may invoke it to suggest exotic riches, cross-cultural trade, or the allure and danger of mercantile greed. As a loanword in Western literature, it enriches imagery with a sense of distance, mystery, and cultural encounter.
Example
Example in poetry:
Under the desert moon, a lone dinar paid for water dearer than wine; She scattered her dinars on the tiles, buying a brief song and a long regret; The merchant’s tale is measured in dinars and dust, profit and the price of mercy; Poets speak of dinars when they would conjure bazaars, veiled faces, and bargaining souls.
Additional Notes
Dinar connects Islamic civilisation to earlier Roman coinage through its etymology from denarius, which makes it useful for cross-cultural or comparative poems. Historically it was a gold or silver coin circulating in caliphates and later in many Muslim-majority regions; in literature it can evoke bazaars, caravans, or the splendour of courts in Baghdad, Damascus, or Córdoba. Poets may use dinar to symbolise trade routes, religious charity, or the tensions between spiritual and commercial wealth. Its exotic resonance in English can help mark “Orientalist” settings, but contemporary usage should be sensitive to stereotype and nuance.
Also Known As
Islamic dinar
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