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 J

Jerome

Historical Figure
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

Church Father who translated the Bible into Latin (the Vulgate) and promoted asceticism

Detailed Definition
Saint Jerome’s scholarship and temper made him a complex figure of piety and erudition. His translation unified Western Christianity. Poets cite him as a symbol of textual devotion, the hermit-scholar, and the arduous labor of making sacred words accessible.
Example
Example in poetry:
Jerome, desert saint with lion at his side, pens Scripture where the wild things hide; Poets praise his Latin Vulgate—words that shaped the Church’s sacred thought; In sonnets, Jerome’s pen becomes a sword, defending truth with learned word; His study, cave, and steadfast mind inspire verses on faith refined; Jerome’s legacy: a bridge of text where ancient tongues and modern prayers connect.
Additional Notes
Saint Jerome (c. 347–420) was a Church Father who translated the Bible into Latin (the Vulgate) and is often depicted with a lion; in poetry, Jerome symbolizes scholarly devotion, penitence, or the fusion of classical learning and Christian faith—his desert asceticism and linguistic rigor make him a touchstone in meditative or devotional poetry (e.g., by Herbert or Hopkins); useful for analyzing allusions to translation, scripture, or monastic solitude.
Also Known As
Saint Jerome Jerome of Stridon Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus
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