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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

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Wailing

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

Loud, mournful cries of grief or lamentation, often associated with communal mourning or penitence.

Detailed Definition
The "Wailing Wall" (Western Wall) in Jerusalem is a site where Jews mourn the destruction of the Temples. Wailing is a raw, physical expression of deep sorrow, repentance, or despair. In poetry, wailing gives voice to the profound grief of exile, loss, and the soul's sense of separation from God. It is the sound of unvarnished human suffering offered up to the divine, a communal and cathartic expression of pain that stands in stark contrast to silent contemplation, representing the passionate side of religious devotion.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Jewish poetry, Wailing Wall holds tears: “Stone shoulders—Wailing, prayers of centuries”; In biblical lament, Wailing is raw grief: “Rachel weeps—Wailing for children, no comfort”; In contemporary verse, Wailing is protest: “March’s cry—Wailing against injustice”; Poets sanctify Wailing: “Not shame—Wailing, honest language of loss.”
Additional Notes
Wailing appears in religious lament—from the Wailing Wall (Kotel) in Jerusalem to the cries of mourners in Ashura processions; it expresses communal grief, repentance, or longing for divine presence; poets harness wailing’s raw sonic power to convey unfiltered emotion, often contrasting it with silence or song to explore the full spectrum of sacred expression.
Also Known As
Lament Keening Mourning
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