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 P

Passion

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 Christianity, the suffering and death of Jesus Christ; more broadly, intense, compelling emotion or devotion.

Detailed Definition
The Passion narrative—from the Agony in the Garden to the Crucifixion—is central to Christian soteriology, representing the ultimate sacrifice for humanity's salvation. In a broader religious and poetic sense, passion denotes a powerful, all-consuming devotion, whether to God, a cause, or an ideal. Poets draw on both meanings: the pathos of Christ's suffering to explore themes of love, sacrifice, and redemption, and the concept of intense emotion to portray the fervor of the seeker's heart and the agony and ecstasy of divine love.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Christian poetry, Passion is Christ’s suffering and love: “Thorns, nails, cross—Passion where divine love bleeds”; In Sufi verse, Passion is longing for the Beloved: “My chest—a furnace—Passion burns names into ash”; In contemporary poetry, Passion is commitment: “Teaching in underfunded school—Passion as daily offering”; Poets distinguish Passion from emotion: “Not feeling, but fidelity—Passion endures when fire cools.”
Additional Notes
Passion (from Latin passio, “suffering”) specifically denotes Christ’s crucifixion but broadly conveys intense devotion; in mystical poetry, divine love is a “wound” that both pains and heals; the Passion narrative invites poets to explore vulnerability, sacrifice, and the paradox that love’s fullest expression may require surrender unto death.
Also Known As
Suffering of Christ The Passion Narrative Emotion Love Zeal grá Desire Fervor Lust
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