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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.

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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myrrh

Perfumery
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

Myrrh is a bitter, resinous, and smoky base note from tree gum, adding depth and medicinal warmth in perfumery.

Detailed Definition
Paired often with frankincense. In literature, myrrh signifies healing, sacrifice, and exotic trade, appearing in biblical and poetic allusions to mourning, resurrection, and the preciousness of suffering transformed into beauty.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Myrrh’s bitter smoke rose with frankincense” recalls biblical and liturgical associations of ritual and mourning; The Magi’s gift of myrrh gives Christian poems a traditional symbol of mortality, healing, and burial; “Myrrh darkened the room with medicinal amber” captures its resinous, balsamic scent profile; In a contemporary elegy, myrrh may accompany incense, hospital memory, or diaspora without requiring a strictly religious reading
Additional Notes
Myrrh bitter resinous smoky base from tree gum adds medicinal depth and warmth in incense and oriental fragrances. Poetry students employ myrrh for healing, sacrifice, or exotic trade in biblical or mourning verses; usage tip: blend myrrh with frankincense for sacred duos or labdanum for resinous contrast. Related to resinoid, balsamic, and myrrh's historical use, it enriches sacred palettes. This helps craft bitter-sweet transformative imagery. Professors connect to religious literature, fostering profound symbolic analysis.
Other Meanings of “myrrh”
Also Known As
Commiphora myrrha Gum myrrh Murr Bola
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