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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Gnosis

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

In Gnosticism, esoteric knowledge of spiritual truth, believed to be the key to salvation and liberation from the material world.

Detailed Definition
Gnosis is not intellectual knowledge but direct, experiential insight into the divine nature of the self and the path to escape a flawed material creation. In poetry, the quest for gnosis drives the narrative of seeking hidden truth, awakening from the "sleep" of ignorance, and discovering the divine spark within. Gnostic poetry is often dense with symbolism, allegory, and a sense of cosmic drama, portraying the soul's journey through hostile realms to return to its true, luminous home in the fullness (Pleroma).
Example
Example in poetry:
In Gnostic poetry, Gnosis is direct knowing: “Not belief, but vision—Gnosis burns the veil”; In Sufi verse, Gnosis is heart-knowledge: “Books teach words; Gnosis teaches silence”; In contemporary mysticism, Gnosis is awakening: “Gnosis is not learned—it is remembered”; Poets contrast Gnosis and dogma: “Dogma says ‘believe’; Gnosis says ‘see for yourself.’”
Additional Notes
Gnosis is salvific knowledge of one’s divine origin and the illusory nature of the material world; suppressed in early Christianity but revived in modern thought; poets influenced by Gnosticism (Blake, Yeats) use it to critique institutional religion and affirm the individual’s direct access to transcendent truth through imagination.
Also Known As
Divine Knowledge Insight Jnana
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