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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Jade green

Colours
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

Jade green is the cool, translucent green of the precious stone, associated with East Asian art, longevity, and refined beauty.

Detailed Definition
Jade green inherits the cultural weight of the stone revered in China and Mesoamerica for its toughness and luminous depth. In poetry it often colors water, foliage, or eyes, suggesting both natural vitality and cultivated elegance. The term allows writers to evoke an entire aesthetic tradition—restraint, permanence, and spiritual value—within a single chromatic image.
Example
Example in poetry:
Richard Jones assigns jade green to “the bride’s necklace,” fusing the East-Asian gem with ceremonial beauty; Classical Chinese and later Western poetry treat jade as a symbol of longevity and refined virtue; A poet might write “jade-green water under the temple bridge,” linking color to spiritual calm; In contemporary verse “the jade-green pulse of early leaves” restores natural vitality; Educational use: place jade green beside images of endurance or quiet elegance.
Additional Notes
Jade green inherits the cultural prestige of the stone revered in East Asian and Mesoamerican traditions for toughness, longevity, and spiritual value. It effectively signals both natural vitality and cultivated elegance. Usage advice: place jade green beside water, foliage, or ceremonial objects to reinforce its refined associations. Related greens include emerald and celadon; jade green is cooler and more translucent. Professors can invite comparison of Western and East Asian symbolic systems, showing how the color imports an entire aesthetic of restraint and permanence.
Also Known As
Jade Nephrite Green Imperial Green Celestial Jade
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