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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Storm

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 powerful natural phenomenon often symbolizing divine wrath, revelation, or chaotic power in religious texts and poetry.

Detailed Definition
In religious contexts, storms frequently represent the awesome and terrifying presence of the divine. The Hebrew Bible depicts God speaking from whirlwinds to Job, and storms accompany theophanies of deities like Zeus and Ba'al. Poets harness this imagery to evoke emotional turmoil, existential crisis, or a moment of profound, disruptive insight. The storm's raw, untamable force serves as a perfect metaphor for the overwhelming power of the sacred, the chaos preceding creation, or the inner tempest of a spiritual seeker, making it a recurring motif for moments of dramatic transformation and awe.
Example
Example in poetry:
In biblical poetry, Storm is divine power: “God thunders—Storm shakes cedars of Lebanon”; In Sufi verse, Storm is love’s turmoil: “Heart’s tempest—Storm where Beloved’s name echoes”; In contemporary poetry, Storm is crisis: “Hurricane—Storm that reveals who we are”; Poets find calm in Storm: “Eye of hurricane—Storm’s center, peace within chaos.”
Additional Notes
Storms manifest divine power—Yahweh in thunder (Job 37), Allah’s control over winds (Qur’an 30:46), or Krishna’s cosmic form; they symbolize chaos, revelation, or purification; in poetry, storms externalize inner turmoil or divine interruption, where destruction clears space for new creation and awe silences human presumption.
Also Known As
Tempest Divine Storm Wrath of God Assault Charge
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