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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Symbolic

Adjective
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

Describes something that represents or stands for another through symbolism.

Detailed Definition
Symbolic in poetry refers to the use of images, objects, or actions to represent abstract ideas, emotions, or spiritual concepts beyond their literal meaning; effective symbolism arises from organic integration within the poem’s context rather than arbitrary association, as in the albatross in Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” which evolves from bird to burden to emblem of guilt and redemption.
Example
Example in poetry:
Symbolic poetry uses objects to represent abstract ideas: A rose symbolizing love in Burns’ “O my Luve’s like a red, red rose”; The raven as death in Poe’s “The Raven”; The road as life’s choices in Frost’s “The Road Not Taken”; The albatross as guilt in Coleridge’s “Ancient Mariner”.
Additional Notes
Symbolic|Pertaining to the use of symbols—objects, actions, or ideas that stand for something beyond their literal selves; all poetry uses this to some degree, but Symbolist poetry makes it central.
Also Known As
Figurative Allegorical Metaphorical Emblematic Non-literal Representative
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