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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 T

Temple

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 building dedicated to religious worship or ritual, often considered the dwelling place of a deity.

Detailed Definition
The Temple in Jerusalem was the central sanctuary of ancient Israel, its destruction mourned and its future restoration hoped for. In Hinduism, a temple (mandir) is a microcosm of the universe housing the deity. Poetically, the temple is a multifaceted symbol. It can represent the human body as a vessel for the spirit, the structured world of religious ritual, or the inner sanctum of the heart. It stands as an image of order, sacred space, communion with the divine, and often, the fragility of such holiness in a destructive world.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Hindu poetry, Temple (mandir) is cosmic axis: “Gopuram towers—Temple where earth meets heaven”; In Psalm 27, Temple is refuge: “One thing I ask—Temple, to gaze on God’s beauty”; In contemporary verse, Temple is community: “Soup kitchen—Temple where grace is served on trays”; Poets critique Temple without justice: “Marble halls—Temple that ignores the beggar at gate.”
Additional Notes
Temples serve as microcosms of the cosmos in many traditions—the Hindu mandir mirrors Mount Meru, the Jerusalem Temple reflected divine order, and Buddhist stupas embody enlightenment; unlike churches or mosques, temples are often seen as the actual dwelling of the deity; poets use temple imagery to explore sacred architecture, the body as temple (1 Corinthians 6:19), or the ruins of faith in secular modernity.
Also Known As
Sanctuary House of God Mandir Wat Beit HaMikdash Vihara
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