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

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Perichoresis

Philosophy
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

Mutual indwelling in which distinct persons or forces inhabit one another without becoming identical.

Detailed Definition
In poetry, perichoresis offers a model for relation that avoids both isolation and total fusion. A body may carry an ancestor's voice, a landscape may enter a memory, or two speakers may shape one another through alternating lines. The concept, used in theological discussions of relational unity, can illuminate poems where difference is preserved inside intimacy. Its imagery encourages readers to see meaning as circulating among voices rather than residing in a solitary source.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem can represent perichoresis when two voices interweave so closely that each helps constitute the other; A love lyric may portray self and beloved as mutually inhabiting one shared emotional space; In a poem about nature, rain, soil, root, and leaf can circulate through one another rather than appear as separate objects; The term can guide a sequence in which different stanzas return into and transform one another, suggesting mutual indwelling
Additional Notes
Perichoresis, a term rooted in Greek theology, describes distinct persons or realities dwelling in one another without losing their distinction. It is often used to explain the relationship of the persons of the Trinity, and more broadly can illuminate reciprocity, interdependence, and relational identity. In poetry, intertwined voices, images, or natural forces may enact perichoresis when each remains recognizable while helping constitute the others.
Also Known As
Circumincession Coinherence Mutual Indwelling
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