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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

Home › Glossary › Letter A

Apogee Moon

Astrology
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 poetic name for a Moon at or near its greatest distance from Earth.

Detailed Definition
The apogee Moon offers poetry an image of emotional remoteness, altered scale, and longing stretched across unusual space. Its symbolism need not mean coldness; distance can clarify what closeness obscures. A poet may use this lunar condition for estrangement, a far-off mother, or a feeling that seems too immense to touch. Its imagined light is intimate precisely because it arrives from elsewhere, carrying news from the outer edge of the familiar heart.
Example
Example in poetry:
The apogee Moon is the full or near-full Moon occurring close to the Moon’s farthest point from Earth; A poet can make an apogee Moon seem distant, pale, or emotionally remote; “At apogee, the Moon keeps its silver counsel” uses orbital distance to suggest restraint; The term can support a contrast between an apogee Moon and an unusually large perigee Moon
Additional Notes
The Moon reaches apogee when it is farthest from Earth in its elliptical orbit; the opposite point is perigee. An apogee Moon may appear slightly smaller than a perigee Moon, though the difference is subtle. As a poetic image, it can evoke distance, restraint, or emotional remoteness rather than a distinct scientific lunar phase.
Also Known As
Apogee of the Moon Lunar Apogee
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