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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Fall

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

The transition of the first humans from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience, as described in Genesis.

Detailed Definition
The Fall represents the origin of sin, suffering, and alienation from God in Judeo-Christian theology. In poetry, the Fall is a powerful explanation for the human condition—our sense of loss, our moral ambiguity, and our fractured relationship with nature, each other, and the divine. It symbolizes the moment consciousness and will introduced conflict into a harmonious world. Poets use this narrative to explore themes of innocence versus experience, temptation, guilt, and the longing for a lost paradise.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Christian poetry, the Fall introduces sin: “Apple bitten—paradise lost, but love remains”; In Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” the Fall is tragic yet redemptive; In contemporary verse, the Fall is human error: “We fell—not from grace, but from attention”; Some poets reinterpret the Fall as necessary: “Without the Fall, no climbing; without night, no dawn.”
Additional Notes
The Fall (Genesis 3) explains human suffering, moral awareness, and alienation from God; in Christian theology, it necessitates redemption; poets explore the Fall not as mere disobedience but as the birth of consciousness, desire, and poetic language itself—often with ambivalence toward innocence lost and knowledge gained.
Also Known As
Original Sin The Fall of Man fómhar Autumnal
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