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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Fichte

Historical Figure
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

German idealist who argued that the self posits both itself and the not-self, making consciousness the foundation of reality.

Detailed Definition
Fichte’s radical subjectivism influenced poetic expressions of the self as creative force, where the world emerges from inner will, inspiring Romantic and existential verse that elevates individual consciousness above external reality.
Example
Example in poetry:
Fichte, idealist philosopher, inspires ego-centric verse: "Fichte said the Ego posits the Non-Ego—I dream the world into being each dawn"; A radical line: "Reality is will, not stuff, said Fichte; I shape my world by daring to be"; A couplet: "From absolute ego springs all—Fichte’s bold architecture of mind"; A critique: "Too much self, said Schelling; the world pushes back, not just mirrors"
Additional Notes
Fichte argued that the self posits both itself and the not-self, making consciousness the foundation of reality; his idealism influenced German Romantic poets like Novalis and Hölderlin, who transformed poetry into an act of self-creation, where the poet’s mind structures the world, and verse becomes the dynamic unfolding of consciousness itself.
Also Known As
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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