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 L

Logos

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 Greek philosophy and Christian theology, the Word of God, or the principle of reason and order in the universe, incarnated in Jesus Christ.

Detailed Definition
The Logos is the creative, structuring intelligence behind the cosmos. In the Gospel of John, "In the beginning was the Word (Logos)." This concept elevates language to a cosmic principle. For the poet, the Logos suggests that words have a sacred origin and power. The act of writing can be a participation in the divine ordering of chaos. The poet seeks to align their personal word with the universal Logos, creating poetry that reflects truth, order, and the underlying meaning of existence.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Christian theology, Logos is Word made flesh: “In the beginning was Logos—and Logos was with God”; In Greek philosophy-inspired poetry, Logos is cosmic reason: “Stars align—Logos orders chaos into song”; In Sufi verse, Logos is divine speech: “Kun! (Be!)—Logos births worlds from silence”; Contemporary poets use Logos as meaning: “In a fractured world, seek Logos—thread that weaves truth.”
Additional Notes
Logos in John 1:1 identifies Christ as divine Word through whom all was made; in Stoicism, it is cosmic reason; in poetry, Logos represents the creative power of language itself—where naming brings being into existence, and the poet participates in divine ordering through the spoken or written word.
Other Meanings of “Logos”
Also Known As
Word (Christian theology) Divine Reason Word Reason Cosmic Order
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