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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Insight

Philosophy
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

Insight is a deep or sudden understanding of a truth or situation. It often arises intuitively rather than through reasoning.

Detailed Definition
Philosophically, insight represents a moment of clarity that transcends gradual analysis. In poetry, it appears in epiphanic moments where meaning crystallises. Poets use imagery, rhythm, and structure to lead readers toward insight, often revealing hidden connections or truths.
Example
Example in poetry:
Aristotle's concept of nous (intellectual intuition) — the faculty that grasps first principles directly, without discursive reasoning — is the philosophical ancestor of the poet's insight, the sudden perception of a truth that cannot be arrived at by argument; The Romantic concept of imagination (Coleridge's primary and secondary imagination, Keats's "negative capability") is a form of insight — the capacity to perceive the whole in the particular, to grasp intuitively what analysis cannot reach; A poet writing about a moment of sudden understanding — whether mathematical, ethical, or spiritual — might philosophically distinguish insight from discursive reasoning, using the poem to enact rather than merely describe the instantaneous quality of genuine insight; Husserl's phenomenological concept of eidetic intuition — the direct perception of essential structures — provides a philosophical account of how poetic insight might work, grasping the essential form of experience beneath its contingent surface; Heidegger's concept of Lichtung (clearing) — the opening in which beings show themselves — is a spatial-philosophical figure for the moment of insight, when what has been concealed is suddenly illuminated; William Blake's concept of "seeing through the eye, not with it" is a philosophical claim about poetic insight as a different mode of perception from ordinary sensory observation — a visionary capacity to perceive what sense alone cannot reach
Additional Notes
Insight in philosophy corresponds to several distinct concepts: nous (intellectual intuition in Aristotle — the direct grasp of first principles that cannot be derived by argument), Einsicht (insight, understanding in German idealism), Anschauung (intuition, as in Kant's "pure intuitions" of space and time), and the Buddhist concept of prajna (wisdom). Bergson's analysis of intuition — as a mode of philosophical knowing that grasps duration and life from within, in contrast to the analytical intellect that spatializes and fragments — provides a framework for understanding how the poem's compression can achieve a form of insight unavailable to discursive argument. Wittgenstein's concept of a "perspicuous representation" (übersichtliche Darstellung) — an arrangement of material that allows us to see the connections and thus achieve understanding — is a form of philosophical insight. For poets, insight is both the aim and the justification of the lyric. Related terms: nous, intuition, Bergsonian intuition, Kantian Anschauung, prajna, the perspicuous representation.
Other Meanings of “Insight”
Also Known As
Gnosis Prajna Self-awareness Clarity Epiphany Perception Revelation
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