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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Vesuvianite

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 green calcium aluminum silicate symbolizing balance, healing, and spiritual growth.

Detailed Definition
Vesuvianite (idocrase) blends the energies of several minerals, making it a poetic emblem of integration. Poets use it to represent the harmonization of body, mind, and spirit—especially after disruption. Its name from Mount Vesuvius ties it to rebirth from destruction, like green life emerging from ash.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet writes, “Vesuvianite rises from ash—green life where fire raged”; in rebirth poetry, it symbolizes integration after trauma: “Her spirit is vesuvianite—complex, healed, whole”; modern verse uses its blend of minerals to explore unity: “Like vesuvianite, we are many stones made one”; in a poem about Mount Vesuvius, it becomes “nature’s apology—beauty from destruction”; as idocrase (“mixed form”), it embodies wholeness; its vibrant green appears in verses on resilient joy.
Additional Notes
Vesuvianite (also known as idocrase) is a green, brown, or violet calcium aluminum silicate named after Mount Vesuvius, where it was first found in lava; its complex crystal structure and variable composition symbolize geological hybridity and metamorphic resilience—though rarely used in mainstream jewelry, its presence in skarn deposits (formed by magma-limestone interaction) makes it a poetic emblem of creative collision, transformation through pressure, or the unexpected beauty born of destruction and fusion.
Also Known As
Idocrase
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