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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Jannah

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

The Islamic concept of Paradise, a garden of eternal bliss promised to the righteous, described in the Quran with rivers, fruits, and divine pleasure.

Detailed Definition
Jannah is portrayed as a multi-layered realm of unimaginable beauty, peace, and proximity to God, free from pain or sorrow. It rewards faith, good deeds, and patience in this life. In poetry, Jannah serves as both literal hope and allegory—its gardens symbolizing spiritual fulfillment, its rivers representing divine grace, and its houris or companions embodying pure love. Poets contrast earthly transience with Jannah’s permanence, using lush, sensory imagery to express longing for ultimate reunion with the Beloved.
Example
Example in poetry:
A Quranic poem: “Jannah is gardens beneath which rivers flow—and every wound is healed”; A modern verse: “Not escape—it is restoration”; A minimalist lyric: “Where every ‘why’ finds its ‘because’”; A refugee’s poem: “Jannah is the home I never had—but my heart built anyway.”
Additional Notes
Jannah, Islamic Paradise, is a lush garden with rivers of water, milk, wine, and honey—described sensually in the Quran to appeal to human longing. Its levels reward piety; highest is Firdaus, near God’s throne. Unlike passive heaven, Jannah involves active joy—reunion, feasting, divine vision. In Sufi poetry, Jannah is the lover’s embrace—Hafez’s tavern symbolizes its intoxication. For literary students, Jannah’s imagery reveals how eschatology motivates ethics, while its sensory richness influences descriptive aesthetics in ghazals and mystical narratives.
Also Known As
Jannat Paradise Firdaus Garden Heaven
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