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.

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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Nature Symbolism

Metaphysics
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

The use of natural elements (storms, flowers, stars) to represent spiritual states, divine order, or metaphysical concepts.

Detailed Definition
In metaphysical poetry, nature is rarely decorative; it’s a coded language revealing God’s presence or human condition. A dewdrop may signify the soul’s fragility, a compass divine guidance—transforming the natural world into a mirror of transcendent realities.
Example
Example in poetry:
William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” uses daffodils as symbols of joy and spiritual renewal; Emily Dickinson’s “A Bird came down the Walk” employs the bird as a symbol of nature’s delicate autonomy; Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” uses snowy woods to symbolize death or peaceful oblivion; T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” uses dry, barren landscapes to symbolize spiritual desolation; Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” uses migrating geese as symbols of belonging and natural grace; John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” uses the bird as a symbol of immortal art contrasted with human mortality.
Additional Notes
Nature Symbolism in metaphysical poetry often subverts pastoral conventions by imbuing natural elements with complex theological or philosophical meanings; rather than idealizing nature, poets like George Herbert use it dialectically—roses symbolize both earthly beauty and Christ’s sacrifice, gardens represent both retreat and spiritual discipline—revealing how metaphysical thought interrogates nature as a coded text pointing beyond itself to divine order or human limitation.
Also Known As
Natural Imagery Symbolic Nature Ecological Symbolism Pastoral Symbolism
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