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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Prophecy

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

A message believed to be divinely inspired, often concerning future events or divine will, delivered through a prophet.

Detailed Definition
Prophecy is not merely prediction; it is a communication from God that often critiques social injustice, calls for repentance, and offers hope. It is a central feature of Abrahamic religions. In poetry, the prophetic voice is one of moral urgency and visionary power. Poets from William Blake to modern times have adopted this voice to critique their society and envision alternative, more sacred realities. Prophecy in poetry bridges the temporal, speaking timeless truths with compelling authority.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Hebrew poetry, Prophecy calls for justice: “Let justice roll—Prophecy thunders against kings”; In Sufi verse, Prophecy is love’s clarity: “True Prophet—sees God in beggar’s eyes”; In contemporary poetry, Prophecy is warning: “Climate scientists—modern Prophets crying in the wilderness”; Poets distinguish Prophecy from prediction: “Not fortune-telling—Prophecy is moral imagination.”
Additional Notes
Prophecy is less about predicting the future than proclaiming divine justice—Amos condemning oppression, Jeremiah weeping for Jerusalem; true prophecy disrupts complacency; in poetry, prophetic voice speaks truth to power, using stark imagery, lament, or satire to awaken moral imagination and call for societal transformation.
Also Known As
Divine Utterance Nevuah (Hebrew) Divination tairngreacht
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