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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Spire

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 tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a church tower or roof, symbolically pointing toward heaven.

Detailed Definition
The spire is an architectural feature designed to draw the eye and the spirit upward, toward God and the celestial realm. It is a physical manifestation of aspiration, prayer, and the connection between earth and heaven. In poetry, the spire serves as a powerful visual symbol of transcendence, spiritual ambition, and the human desire to reach beyond the mundane. It stands as a landmark of faith on the horizon, a silent pointer directing attention to the divine, and a symbol of the community's collective yearning for the sacred.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Gothic poetry, Spire reaches heaven: “Stone arrow—Spire pierces cloud with prayer”; In Buddhist verse, Spire is aspiration: “Pagoda tiers—Spire pointing to awakening”; In contemporary poetry, Spire is ambition: “Skyscraper—modern Spire, hubris or hope?”; Poets use Spire for focus: “Mind’s Spire—thoughts ascending to clarity.”
Additional Notes
Spires reach skyward from Gothic cathedrals, symbolizing prayer in stone; they draw the eye—and soul—upward; in poetry, spires represent aspiration, fragility (stone defying gravity), and the human desire to bridge earth and heaven through art, faith, and disciplined longing.
Other Meanings of “Spire”
Also Known As
Steeple Minaret (in some symbolic comparisons) Tower
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