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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Miracle

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

A surprising and welcome event attributed to a divine agency, seen as an interruption of natural law.

Detailed Definition
Miracles are central to religious narratives, serving as signs of divine power, compassion, or validation of a prophet's message. They range from healing and exorcisms in the Gospels to the splitting of the sea in the Quran. In poetry, miracles symbolize the possibility of transcendence, the intrusion of grace into the mundane world, and the victory of faith over despair. Poets use them to question or affirm the supernatural, to highlight wonder, and to explore the boundaries between the possible and the impossible.
Example
Example in poetry:
In biblical psalms, Miracle affirms divine power: “Sea parted—Miracle carved a path in water”; In Sufi poetry, the greatest Miracle is love: “Your glance—Miracle that turns stone to rose”; In contemporary verse, Miracle is subtle: “After chemo, hair returns—Miracle in millimeters”; Poets contrast Miracle and science: “Not defying nature—Miracle is nature revealing its hidden face.”
Additional Notes
Miracles function not merely as supernatural interruptions but as signs (sēmeia in Greek) revealing divine character—compassion in healing, abundance in feeding, liberation in parting seas; in poetry, miracles often appear as moments where the ordinary is transfigured, inviting readers to perceive the sacred woven into daily life rather than as mere spectacle.
Also Known As
Wonder Sign (in biblical context) Ayah
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