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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Wang Wei

Historical Figure
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

Tang dynasty poet, painter, and Buddhist-influenced recluse famed for tranquil landscapes and meditative nature poetry.

Detailed Definition
Wang Wei appears in poetry as a master of stillness, landscape, and spiritual quiet. His verse often fuses painting, music, and meditation, making mountains, streams, empty paths, and evening light into images of inward calm. Poets invoke him when seeking restraint, clarity, contemplative solitude, and the sense that nature can reveal a reality beyond restless human desire.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet might invoke Wang Wei to suggest stillness, landscape, Buddhism, and contemplative solitude; His mountain poems can inspire quiet verse where emptiness is full of presence; A poem might use Wang Wei when mist, pine, water, and silence carry spiritual meaning; His name may stand for the painter-poet who lets nature speak sparingly
Additional Notes
Wang Wei is central for poems of quiet landscape, Buddhist detachment, and the fusion of painting and poetry. His mountains, empty spaces, streams, and evening light often suggest not escape from the world but a refined attention to transience and stillness. A reference to Wang Wei may signal meditative nature poetry, where what is left unsaid matters as much as the visible scene.
Also Known As
Wang Youcheng Mo Jie
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