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 F

Faith

Metaphysics
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

Trust or belief in spiritual truths without empirical proof, often portrayed as a fragile yet vital bridge between human doubt and divine certainty.

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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
Faith in metaphysical poetry functions as both anchor and enigma—a source of comfort amid uncertainty and a subject of intense scrutiny. Poets dramatize the tension between reason and belief, portraying faith as a courageous act in the face of mortality, divine silence, or intellectual skepticism, thus highlighting its centrality to the human spiritual journey.
Example
Example in poetry:
John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet XIV” expresses faith through paradoxical surrender; George Herbert’s “Love (III)” expresses faith through humble acceptance; Emily Dickinson’s “I know that He exists” questions yet affirms faith through absence; T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” integrates faith with philosophical inquiry; Rumi’s poetry expresses Sufi faith through divine longing; Christina Rossetti’s “A Birthday” expresses joyful faith through natural imagery.
Additional Notes
Faith in metaphysics involves trust beyond empirical proof; Herbert’s poetry models faith as active struggle—“The Collar”’s rebellion yields to quiet obedience, showing faith as dynamic relationship rather than static belief, often mediated through conceits of dialogue or journey.
Also Known As
Belief Trust Religious Conviction Spiritual Assurance Religion troth Hope certitude
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