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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Garnet

Gemstones
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

A deep red silicate gem symbolizing devotion, protection, and enduring love.

Detailed Definition
Garnets in verse often represent steadfast affection and the blood of life or sacrifice. Their dark red hue evokes both passion and mortality, making them potent in elegies or love poems. Medieval poets associated garnets with loyalty in separation, while modern writers use them to convey resilience—like embers glowing in darkness—amid emotional or spiritual trials.
Example
Example in poetry:
Medieval bestiaries link garnet to Christ’s blood and eternal light; Shakespeare’s sonnets use garnet to symbolize enduring love through absence; a modern elegy says, “Her memory is garnet—deep red, never dimmed”; in Victorian verse, garnet protects travelers on dark roads; eco-poetry uses it to represent the earth’s vital core; its varieties (pyrope, almandine) allow poets to explore shades of devotion.
Additional Notes
Garnet refers to a group of silicate minerals in deep red (pyrope, almandine) and other colors (green tsavorite, orange spessartine); traditionally a symbol of constancy and safe travel, its January birthstone status links it to new beginnings—its varied chemistry allows rich metaphorical flexibility in poetry.
Other Meanings of “Garnet”
Also Known As
silicate group red varieties January birthstone
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