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

Home › Glossary › Letter S

Stream

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 flowing body of water symbolizing spiritual sustenance, the passage of time, or the flow of divine grace.

Detailed Definition
Streams are potent symbols across traditions, representing life, purity, and constant change. In Buddhism, the "stream-entere" is one who has entered the path to Nirvana. In Christianity, the "river of life" flows from the throne of God. Poets use the stream to contemplate transience, the soul's journey towards the divine, or a source of spiritual refreshment in a desolate landscape. Its continuous motion evokes the Heraclitean idea that one cannot step in the same river twice, making it an ideal image for meditations on impermanence and the relentless flow of consciousness towards its origin.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Taoist poetry, Stream flows effortlessly: “Follow the Stream—Stream that carves canyon without force”; In biblical verse, Stream is life: “Beside still waters—Stream that restores soul”; In contemporary poetry, Stream is time: “Childhood creek—Stream that carries memories downstream”; Poets use Stream for guidance: “Lost in woods—Stream leads to open sky.”
Additional Notes
Streams—living water in John 4, Ganges’ flow, Psalm 1’s tree by streams—symbolize grace, wisdom, and life’s journey; their constant movement mirrors impermanence and renewal; poets use streams to explore surrender (floating), clarity (reflecting sky), or the quiet persistence of divine presence through changing landscapes.
Also Known As
River Flow Living Water Brook Burn abhainn sruth tide bourn bourne Iser streamlet
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