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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Rumi

Historical Figure
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

Persian Sufi poet and mystic whose verse celebrates divine love, longing, and spiritual union.

Detailed Definition
Rumi is one of the great poetic figures of mystical literature, often invoked as a voice of ecstatic love and inward transformation. His poems turn human longing into a path towards the divine, using music, dance, wine, and the beloved as spiritual symbols. In poetry, his name suggests the soul’s journey, the dissolving of self, and the radiant unity beneath religious and cultural boundaries.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet might use Rumi to suggest ecstatic love that dissolves the self; The reed flute associated with Rumi can symbolise longing for spiritual return; A poem might invoke Rumi when human love opens into divine union; His name may bring in whirling, flame, music, and the beloved as a doorway to God
Additional Notes
Rumi is one of the most widely invoked mystical poets, but his popularity can lead to oversimplification. In serious poetry study, he should be understood through Sufi longing, discipline, music, the beloved, and the soul’s desire for union with the divine. Images of reed flute, turning, fire, wine, and separation often carry spiritual meanings that exceed ordinary romantic love.
Also Known As
Jalal ad-Din Rumi Jalaluddin Rumi Mawlana Mevlana Mowlana
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