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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Divine

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

Relating to, emanating from, or being God or a god; of surpassing excellence or beauty.

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Faith and Doubt in Poetry — Poetry has long been a place for speaking towards God, searching for meaning, resisting certainty and giving shape to silence. This guide explores devotional traditions and poems of doubt while offering practical ways to read and listen across differing beliefs.

Detailed Definition
The divine is the ultimate subject of most religious poetry. It is the source, the goal, and the animating presence. Poets use a vast array of metaphors to point toward the divine: king, father, mother, lover, light, ocean, breath. The attempt to capture the nature of the divine drives both cataphatic and apophatic language. The concept allows poetry to explore the intersection of the transcendent and the immanent—the God who is beyond the cosmos yet intimately present within the heart and the world.
Example
Example in poetry:
In mystical poetry, the Divine is both near and far: “You are closer than my breath, yet vaster than galaxies”; In Rilke’s “Duino Elegies,” the Divine is terrifying beauty: “For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror”; In Indigenous verse, the Divine is earth itself: “The river is Divine—drink, and be healed”; Contemporary poets avoid gendering the Divine: “Not He, not She—the Divine hums beyond pronouns.”
Additional Notes
“Divine” can denote ontological origin (from God) or qualitative excellence (godlike beauty); in Neoplatonism, all beauty participates in the divine; poets use “divine” to elevate human experience—love, art, nature—into sacred encounter, blurring boundaries between immanent and transcendent.
Also Known As
Sacred Holy Godhead Spae
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