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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Theological Themes

Metaphysics
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

Religious concepts such as sin, grace, salvation, and divine providence that structure metaphysical poetry’s exploration of ultimate meaning.

Detailed Definition
These themes provide the moral and cosmic framework within which metaphysical poets wrestle with doubt, desire, and destiny. By engaging doctrine imaginatively rather than dogmatically, they transform theology into personal drama, questioning how divine will intersects with human freedom and suffering.
Example
Example in poetry:
John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet XIV” (“Batter my heart”) explores theological themes of grace, sin, and divine violence; George Herbert’s “The Pulley” presents a theological explanation for human restlessness as part of God’s design; Emily Dickinson’s “I know that He exists” questions divine hiddenness, a classic theological theme; T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets” integrates Incarnation, redemption, and time into Christian theological reflection; Christina Rossetti’s devotional poems explore themes of sacrifice, mercy, and eschatological hope; Rumi’s verses explore Sufi theological themes like divine unity, longing, and annihilation of the self.
Additional Notes
Theological Themes in metaphysical poetry include grace, sin, providence, and divine love, treated not as settled truths but as living questions; through conceits, paradoxes, and dialogues, poets like Herbert and Crashaw explore doctrines such as predestination or the Eucharist with emotional urgency and intellectual daring, revealing theology as a dynamic, often agonistic, encounter between human limitation and divine mystery.
Also Known As
Religious Motifs Doctrinal Themes Sacred Concepts Biblical Topoi
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