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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Fire

Symbolism
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

Fire symbolizes desire, destruction, purification, and creative energy.

Detailed Definition
In poetry, fire can warm a household or devastate it, allowing poets to hold comfort and danger in a single image. Flames often represent love, anger, rebellion, inspiration, or sacred transformation. A controlled flame may suggest devotion or artistic discipline, whereas wildfire can embody passion beyond restraint. Fire also changes whatever it touches, making it a vivid symbol for experiences that cannot leave the self unchanged, even after their brightness has faded.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Robert Frost's "Fire and Ice," fire symbolizes destructive desire, while ice symbolizes destructive hatred; A small fire kept alive through a winter night can symbolize hope surviving hardship; A city burning in a war poem may symbolize both physical ruin and moral collapse; A sacred flame passed from one generation to another can symbolize cultural memory and endurance
Additional Notes
Fire may warm, illuminate, cook, gather people, destroy, cleanse, or transform, so its symbolic meaning depends on scale, control, and consequence. A hearth fire differs sharply from wildfire, arson, candle flame, or funeral pyre; each brings distinct associations of home, danger, revelation, rage, or purification. Compare light, which need not consume, and ash, which records aftermath. In analysis, ask who tends the fire, what it changes, and whether its promise is comfort or threat.
Also Known As
Flame Blaze Fervor Fyre Spunk
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