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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Sermon

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 religious discourse or oration delivered by a preacher, typically based on a passage from scripture, such as Jesus's Sermon on the Mount.

Detailed Definition
A sermon is a form of oral teaching intended to instruct, inspire, and exhort a congregation in matters of faith and morals. It is a performative and rhetorical art form. In poetry, the structure or tone of a sermon can be adopted to lend weight and authority to the poet's words. Poets may explore the figure of the preacher, the act of listening, or the themes of a famous sermon to grapple with moral instruction, prophetic voice, and the communal experience of receiving and interpreting divine wisdom.
Example
Example in poetry:
In gospel poetry, Sermon proclaims justice: “Mount’s edge—Sermon blesses poor, peacemakers, mourners”; In Rumi’s verse, true Sermon is life: “Don’t preach love—Sermon is how you treat the beggar”; In contemporary poetry, Sermon is protest: “Mic at rally—Sermon against systemic sin”; Poets critique empty Sermons: “Smooth words—Sermon that never leaves the pulpit.”
Additional Notes
Sermons—from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount to Jonathan Edwards’ “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”—interpret scripture for ethical living; they blend logic, story, and urgency; poets study sermons for rhetorical power, using their cadence, repetition, and moral clarity to shape verse that instructs, convicts, and consoles.
Also Known As
Khutbah (Islamic) Homily Discourse Khutbah Sutta
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