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 M

mole

Fauna
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 mole is a small, subterranean insectivore with velvety fur and tiny eyes, symbolizing blindness, hidden labor, and the unseen forces beneath the surface.

Detailed Definition
The mole's life in perpetual darkness makes it a powerful poetic emblem for intuition, the unconscious, and the work that goes unnoticed. Its pushing up of earth in mounds suggests the slow, persistent upheaval of buried truths or emotions. Poets use the mole to represent the scholar or artist who works in obscurity, the blind but determined seeker, or the buried anxieties that surface in everyday life. Its lack of sight invites metaphors for spiritual blindness, yet its acute touch and hearing speak to a different, deeper way of knowing.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem contrasts the mole and the eagle: "The mole is blind, and under ground, Snug as a nest her home is found".; Aldous Huxley's "Mole" describes it as "The old mole-soul" tunneling through darkness.; The mole can symbolize hidden labor and blindness.; Its tunneling represents the unconscious.; The animal's myopia is noted.
Additional Notes
The mole's life in perpetual darkness makes it a powerful poetic emblem for intuition, the unconscious, and the work that goes unnoticed. Its pushing up of earth in mounds suggests the slow, persistent upheaval of buried truths or emotions. Aldous Huxley's poem "Mole" describes it as "the old mole-soul" tunneling through darkness, a figure for the buried self that works beneath the surface of consciousness. Poets use the mole to represent the scholar or artist who works in obscurity, the blind but determined seeker, or the buried anxieties that surface in everyday life. When writing, consider the mole's lack of sight as a metaphor for spiritual blindness or, conversely, for a different, deeper way of knowing that relies on touch and hearing.
Also Known As
jetty
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