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.

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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Spiritual World

Metaphysics
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 non-material realm of the soul, divine presence, and transcendent truths, often posited as superior to or interwoven with earthly reality.

Detailed Definition
Poets invoke the spiritual world to question the limits of human perception and affirm unseen realities. In metaphysical verse, this realm offers resolution to earthly paradoxes, promising unity with the divine, eternal love, or posthumous justice, thus providing a counterweight to the impermanence of physical life.
Example
Example in poetry:
John Donne’s “The Ecstasy” describes the spiritual world as the true realm of love, witnessed by the body; Emily Dickinson’s “The Soul selects her own Society” portrays the soul’s sovereignty in a transcendent inner realm; George Herbert’s “The Flower” links spiritual renewal to divine grace beyond the physical cycle; T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” evokes the spiritual world through moments of timeless stillness; Rumi’s poetry presents the spiritual world as the soul’s true home, beyond earthly illusion; Christina Rossetti’s “Up-Hill” uses allegory to depict the soul’s journey toward a heavenly resting place.
Additional Notes
Spiritual World in metaphysics denotes the non-material realm of soul, divinity, and eternal truths, often accessed through analogy or paradox; metaphysical poets bridge this world with the physical via conceits—Donne’s lovers’ souls remain united across continents, Herbert’s altar is built of a “heart of stone”—showing that the spiritual is not remote but immanent, discernible through disciplined perception and imaginative linkage.
Also Known As
Divine Realm Supernatural Sphere Celestial World Invisible Realm
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