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

Home › Glossary › Letter D

Dome

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 rounded vault forming the roof of a building, often used in religious architecture like mosques and capitol buildings, symbolizing the heavens.

Detailed Definition
The dome is an architectural representation of the vault of heaven, the cosmic mountain, and the encompassing nature of the divine. In poetry, the image of the dome evokes grandeur, shelter, and the sacred space that separates the mundane from the holy. It can symbolize the human mind or soul that aspires to encompass the divine, or the firmament that displays God's glory. Poets use it to create a sense of awe, scale, and the protective, all-encompassing presence of the sacred.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Islamic architecture-inspired poetry, the Dome symbolizes heaven: “Under the Dome, we are all equal before the One”; In Byzantine verse, the Dome holds divine light: “Gold mosaics—God’s gaze reflected”; In Sufi poetry, the Dome is the vault of the heart: “My chest—a Dome where the Beloved prays”; Contemporary poets use Dome as unity: “One sky, one Dome—why build walls beneath it?”
Additional Notes
Domes in mosques (e.g., Dome of the Rock) and churches (Hagia Sophia) symbolize the vault of heaven, divine encompassment, and unity; their acoustics amplify chant and prayer; in poetry, the dome evokes protection, cosmic order, or the mind as a microcosm—often paired with light filtering through to suggest revelation.
Other Meanings of “Dome”
Also Known As
Dome of the Rock Cupola Vault
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