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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Way

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

A path, road, or method, used metaphorically for a spiritual path, doctrine, or lifestyle, as in the Tao or Christianity.

Detailed Definition
In the New Testament, Jesus says, "I am the way." In Taoism, the Tao is the "Way" of the universe. In Buddhism, the Noble Eightfold Path is the way to the end of suffering. In poetry, the way symbolizes the journey of the soul, the process of spiritual seeking, and the prescribed route to salvation or enlightenment. It is an image of direction, purpose, and progression, often fraught with obstacles, leading the traveler from ignorance to wisdom, from exile to home.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Taoist poetry, Way (Tao) is pathless path: “Walk without tracks—Way that cannot be named”; In Christian verse, Jesus is the Way: “I am the Way—truth and life”; In Indigenous poetry, Way is ancestral: “Trail through forest—Way walked by grandmothers”; Contemporary poets describe Way as practice: “Daily kindness—Way paved with small choices.”
Additional Notes
The “Way” (Greek hodos, Hebrew derekh, Chinese Tao) denotes a spiritual path: early Christians were called followers of “the Way” (Acts 9:2); in Confucianism, it is the path of virtue; in poetry, the way suggests journey, discipline, and orientation—often rendered through road, river, or footpath imagery that invites the reader to walk alongside the seeker toward truth.
Also Known As
Tao Path Dharma Halakha
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