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 G

Ghost Light

Supernatural
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 light believed to be carried by wandering spirits or seen over haunted ground. It often symbolizes uncertainty, lure, and danger.

Detailed Definition
A ghost light is an unexplained light seen in marshes, graveyards, battlefields, or lonely roads, often interpreted as a spirit’s lamp or a lure toward danger. In poetry, it can lead a speaker through darkness without offering reliable guidance. Its flickering, distant quality makes it suited to poems about temptation, grief, lost travelers, and uncertain hope. The image may also suggest that the dead remain visible only in fragments and at the edge of vision.
Example
Example in poetry:
A ghost light is the single lamp traditionally left burning on an empty theater stage, and it can symbolize absence, hope, or lingering performance.; In a poem about a closed theater, the ghost light can become a small act of resistance: “One bulb kept watch where the orchestra had been.”; A poet may use the ghost light as a literal object while suggesting that former actors still haunt the stage.; The image works especially well for elegy because it joins illumination with emptiness and remembers those no longer present.
Additional Notes
Ghost light imagery is effective in landscapes at night, where a distant glow invites pursuit but offers no certainty. It can represent false hope, wandering, or hazardous desire.
Also Known As
Ghostlight Spirit Light
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