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

Pearl

Jewellery
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 lustrous gem formed inside an oyster shell; symbolizes purity, hidden beauty, or precious tears in romantic and classic verse.

Detailed Definition
In poetry, the pearl traditionally suggests purity, rarity, tears, and beauty born from irritation. Its pale sheen invites comparisons with moonlight, teeth, dew, and tears, while its origin within a shell gives it associations with secrecy and transformation. A strand of pearls may indicate elegance or inherited wealth, but a solitary pearl can stand for a hard-won insight or precious grief.
Example
Example in poetry:
Shakespeare uses the pearl as a precious image in Sonnet 130, where his mistress’s teeth are compared unfavourably with pearls; “Her teeth are like the pearls the sea refused” could use the pearl to create a fresh, slightly ironic comparison; A pearl formed within an oyster can symbolize beauty emerging from irritation or hardship; “Grief lodged in her heart, and years later became a pearl” makes the natural process into metaphor; Poets may describe dew, tears, or moonlight as pearls to emphasize their roundness and brightness
Additional Notes
Pearls are valued for their soft shine and natural formation inside molluscs. They commonly symbolize purity, tears, rarity, or beauty produced through irritation and time.
Other Meanings of “Pearl”
Also Known As
Gemstone Oyster Jewel Tear of the Sea Moonstone
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