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 E

Eye

Anatomy
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 organ of sight, commonly used to signify perception, witness, desire, or inner knowledge.

Detailed Definition
The eye is one of poetry's most versatile anatomical images because seeing can be literal, emotional, moral, or imaginative. An eye may observe a landscape, reveal tears, hold another person in attention, or fail to recognize what matters. Poets often contrast the eye's outward gaze with inward vision, asking whether sight brings understanding. Images of eyes can create intimacy in love poems, accountability in political poems, and uncanny awareness in dreamlike or visionary writing.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson presents Death as a figure whose gaze changes the speaker’s perspective; “The eye is the lamp of the body” offers a traditional image of sight as inward illumination; A poet might write “one blue eye of the pond watched the moon” to personify landscape; “Her eyes kept the last light” can suggest endurance after loss
Additional Notes
An eye may represent physical seeing, but also judgment, attention, surveillance, or insight. Singular “eye” can feel intimate or symbolic, while “eyes” often emphasize mutual recognition or desire.
Also Known As
Orb Peeper
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