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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Turquoise

Gemstones
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 blue-green phosphate mineral symbolizing protection, communication, and spiritual attunement.

Detailed Definition
Turquoise appears in poetry as a bridge between sky and earth, spirit and body. Native American and Persian traditions imbue it with healing power, inspiring verses about harmony and vision. Poets use its shifting hue to represent emotional fluidity or the sacred ordinary—turquoise as talisman against despair, or the color of awakened intuition.
Example
Example in poetry:
Native American poets invoke turquoise as “sky stone”—a bridge between earth and spirit; in Persian verse, it symbolizes protection: “Turquoise eyes ward off the evil glance”; modern poetry uses it to explore emotional fluidity: “Her mood shifted like turquoise—blue to green with the light”; in a love poem, turquoise becomes “the color of trust, steady as desert sky”; eco-poets lament mined turquoise as “stolen sky,” linking cultural loss to environmental harm; its matrix patterns appear in verses on life’s beautiful imperfections.
Additional Notes
Turquoise, a blue-to-green copper aluminum phosphate, has been revered across cultures—from ancient Egypt to Native American traditions—as a talisman of protection, sky-earth connection, and spiritual attunement; its matrix patterns (veins of host rock) are often celebrated as part of its character, symbolizing the integration of self and environment—poetically, turquoise bridges the celestial (blue) and terrestrial (green), making it ideal for themes of harmony, healing, or cultural memory; note that it’s porous and sensitive to oils, symbolizing vulnerability beneath beauty.
Also Known As
copper aluminum sky blue sacred protection
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