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

Home › Glossary › Letter A

Arc

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 segment of the zodiac or celestial path, measuring angular distance between points. Poets utilize arcs to depict life's curved trajectories or fateful spans in narrative verse.

Detailed Definition
Astrologically, an arc quantifies separations in aspects or progressions, fundamental to chart interpretation since Babylonian times. In poetry, arcs symbolize journeys, as in Milton's "Paradise Lost" where celestial arcs trace falls from grace. Literary use evokes continuity or tension, bridging events across cosmic bows. The term's fluidity suits explorations of destiny's bend, where planetary arcs parallel emotional curves, enriching themes of progression, cyclicity, and the graceful sweep of fate in human stories.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," the arc of fortune bends: "The arc of the heavens bends toward lovers' tragic end."; Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" follows nature's arc: "The arc of the river mirrors the soul's winding path."; In Dante Gabriel Rossetti's sonnets, love's arc curves: "Cupid's arc shoots arrows through the zodiac's bow."; T.S. Eliot's "Ash Wednesday" traces redemptive arc: "The arc of ascent from the waste land's dry ground."; Sylvia Plath in "The Colossus" arcs over ruins: "My gaze arcs over the fallen giant, seeking stars above."
Additional Notes
Arcs measure zodiacal spans, vital for aspect calculations; minor arcs denote tight influences, major ones broad themes. In poetry, they arc like narrative bows in Milton's epic sweeps—related to great circles; tip: students can use arc degrees to symbolize life's journeys, analyzing how planetary arcs in charts parallel poetic rhythms or stanza progressions for deeper symbolic integration.
Also Known As
Angular Distance Celestial Arc
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