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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Tawhid

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 foundational Islamic doctrine of the absolute oneness and uniqueness of God (Allah), rejecting any form of association or partnership with Him.

Detailed Definition
Tawhid is the core of Islamic theology, affirming God’s indivisibility, transcendence, and sole right to worship. It shapes Muslim ethics, cosmology, and aesthetics—rejecting idolatry in all forms. In poetry, especially Sufi verse, Tawhid inspires themes of unity, annihilation of the ego (fana), and the soul’s return to its Source. Poets use metaphors of light, ocean, or mirror to express the paradox of a singular Reality manifesting in multiplicity, often echoing the Shahada: “There is no god but God.”
Example
Example in poetry:
A theological poem: “Tawḥīd is not just ‘one God’—it’s the unity behind all diversity”; In a modern verse, “Tawḥīd means no racism—because all faces reflect One Light”; A minimalist reflection: “Tawḥīd: the root of justice”; A Sufi lyric: “Lā ilāha illā Allāh—this phrase dissolves the illusion of separation.”
Additional Notes
Tawhid is the fundamental, non-negotiable doctrine of Islam: the absolute oneness and uniqueness of God (Allah). It asserts that God is one in His essence, attributes, and right to worship. Every aspect of Islamic belief and practice stems from Tawhid. Its opposite is Shirk (associating partners with God). For literary analysis, Tawhid is the central theme of the Quran and provides a lens of radical monotheism through which to view all of Islamic spirituality, art, and philosophy.
Also Known As
Oneness of God Divine Unity
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