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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Ulexite

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 white borate mineral symbolizing clarity, truth, and optical illusion.

Detailed Definition
Ulexite’s “TV rock” property (transmitting images through fibers) makes it a poetic metaphor for perspective. Poets use it to explore how truth shifts with angle, or the danger of taking surface appearances as reality. Its name evokes the need to look deeper, beyond the projected image.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet writes, “Ulexite shows the world through another’s eyes—truth transmitted fiber by fiber”; in perspective poetry, it symbolizes empathy: “Hold ulexite to see what I see”; modern verse uses its “TV rock” property to explore illusion: “Reality is ulexite—projected, refracted, never whole”; in a poem about miscommunication, ulexite warns “Don’t trust the surface image”; as a borate, it embodies the chemistry of understanding; its optical trickery makes it ideal for verses on perception versus truth.
Additional Notes
Ulexite, nicknamed “TV rock” or “cotton ball mineral,” is a sodium calcium borate that exhibits fiber-optic light transmission, projecting images across its surface; though not a traditional gem, its optical phenomenon offers rich metaphorical potential—poets can use ulexite to symbolize communication, hidden messages, or the distortion of truth through layers of perception; its softness and rarity make it a curiosity rather than a jewel, ideal for speculative or scientific poetry exploring how light, data, and meaning travel through fragile mediums.
Also Known As
TV Rock Cotton Ball Mineral
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