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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Eden

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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

The idyllic biblical garden described in Genesis as humanity’s original home before expulsion due to disobedience—symbolizing innocence, paradise, and loss.

Detailed Definition
Eden is described in Genesis as a paradise of perfect harmony, watered by four rivers, from which humanity was exiled after disobedience. It represents lost innocence, divine intimacy, and the human longing for restoration. Poets constantly revisit Eden to explore themes of nostalgia, sin, and the possibility of return—often contrasting its perfection with the flawed present.
Example
Example in poetry:
In John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” Eden is the central poetic landscape of innocence and fall; William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence” echo Edenic purity and loss; In African American spirituals, Eden symbolizes both origin and promised restoration; Modern eco-poets use Eden to critique environmental degradation; In feminist poetry, Eden is reimagined beyond patriarchal interpretations.
Additional Notes
Eden, the garden of God in Genesis 2–3, is the archetypal paradise lost. In poetry from Milton’s “Paradise Lost” to Blake’s lyrics, it symbolizes innocence, harmony, and the human fall. Eco-poets use Eden to critique environmental destruction; feminist poets reinterpret Eve’s role. Students should note its four rivers (Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel/Tigris, Euphrates) as markers of sacred geography and its contrast with Babel or Babylon as sites of human failure.
Other Meanings of “Eden”
Also Known As
Garden of God Paradise Lost First Home Edenic Grove Garden Paradise Darien
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