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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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Repentance

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

The act of feeling remorse for one's sins or moral wrongdoings and committing to change, often involving confession and atonement.

Detailed Definition
Repentance (Teshuvah in Judaism, Tawbah in Islam) is a central spiritual process in many faiths, representing the turning away from sin and returning to a right relationship with God. It involves genuine contrition, confession, and a resolve to amend one's life. For poets, repentance is a profound internal drama, rich with emotional conflict and the potential for redemption. It provides a framework for exploring guilt, shame, forgiveness, spiritual purification, and the transformative power of humility, often serving as the crucial first step on a journey toward grace and self-renewal.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Jewish poetry, Repentance (teshuvah) is return: “Turn heart like soil—Repentance plants new seeds”; In Christian verse, Repentance is change of mind: “Prodigal’s journey—Repentance begins with one step home”; In Islamic poetry, Repentance is mercy’s door: “Sin stains—Repentance washes in Rahim’s stream”; Contemporary poets frame Repentance as repair: “Listen, apologize, change—Repentance as justice.”
Additional Notes
Repentance (teshuvah in Judaism, metanoia in Greek) means “turning back” to God with changed mind and action; it is communal as well as personal; in poetry, repentance is portrayed through gestures—washing hands, tearing clothes, returning home—emphasizing restoration over guilt and forward motion over stagnation.
Also Known As
Metanoia Tawbah Contrition Penance repent
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