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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Sign

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

An event or object regarded as an indication of divine will or a miracle, demonstrating supernatural power or authority.

Detailed Definition
In religion, a sign is a manifestation of the divine in the natural world, such as the miracles performed by Moses or Jesus. It is proof meant to inspire faith and belief. Poets use the concept of signs to explore the interpretation of the world, the search for meaning, and the moments where the transcendent seems to break into ordinary reality. The ability to read "signs" is a poetic and spiritual skill, involving the discernment of deeper patterns and the presence of the sacred in the seemingly mundane.
Example
Example in poetry:
In biblical poetry, Sign confirms covenant: “Rainbow arch—Sign that flood won’t return”; In Sufi verse, Sign is Beloved’s gesture: “Wink across room—Sign that Love sees me”; In contemporary poetry, Sign is omen: “Cardinal at window—Sign from departed mother”; Poets caution Sign interpretation: “Not all feathers—Sign; some are just birds.”
Additional Notes
Signs (ot in Hebrew) authenticate divine messengers (Moses’ staff, Jesus’ healings) or mark covenant (rainbow, circumcision); they are not magic but meaningful gestures; in poetry, signs appear as ordinary events charged with significance—coincidence as grace, wound as calling—inviting readers to perceive the sacred woven into daily fabric.
Also Known As
Omen Symbol Token Ayah
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