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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Rainbow

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 meteorological phenomenon often symbolizing a covenant, promise, or bridge between heaven and earth.

Detailed Definition
In the Hebrew Bible, the rainbow is the sign of God's covenant with Noah, promising never again to destroy the world by flood. It thus symbolizes divine mercy, hope, and the restoration of peace between God and creation. In poetry, the rainbow is an image of breathtaking beauty that signifies promise after a storm, the bridging of opposites, and the fleeting, glorious nature of divine signs. It represents the grace that appears in the aftermath of turmoil and judgment.
Example
Example in poetry:
In biblical poetry, Rainbow is covenant sign: “After flood—Rainbow, God’s promise in color”; In Indigenous verse, Rainbow connects worlds: “Rainbow Serpent—creator, healer, teacher”; In contemporary poetry, Rainbow is hope: “Post-storm sky—Rainbow arches over broken city”; Poets use Rainbow for diversity: “Many hues, one arc—Rainbow as unity in difference.”
Additional Notes
The rainbow, God’s covenant sign after Noah’s flood (Genesis 9), symbolizes divine promise and restraint; in other cultures, it bridges realms (Bifröst in Norse myth); poets use rainbows to evoke hope after despair, the beauty of diversity (prism of light), or the fragile yet enduring bond between heaven and earth.
Other Meanings of “Rainbow”
Also Known As
Covenant Bow Sign of Promise bow
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