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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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Atropos

Mythology
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

The eldest and most inexorable of the three Moirai (Fates), she cuts the thread of life with her shears, determining the moment of death that even gods cannot reverse.

Detailed Definition
Atropos is the Fate who determines the moment of death by severing life’s thread. In poetry, she symbolises inevitability and finality. Her image reinforces themes of destiny and the limits of mortal agency within the cosmic order.
Example
Example in poetry:
Atropos, the Fate who cuts the thread, symbolises irrevocable death; A poet might write, “Atropos sheared his days”; In sonnets on mortality, she represents finality; Her presence heightens tragic inevitability.
Additional Notes
Atropos, whose name means "inevitable" or "inflexible," represents the most fearsome of the three Fates (Moirai) as the one who cuts the thread of life with her shears, determining the moment of death. While Clotho spins the thread and Lachesis measures it, Atropos alone wields the power to sever it, making death's arrival final and unalterable. Her role embodies the Greek conviction that even gods cannot reverse death or extend a fated lifespan, establishing mortality as the defining boundary between human and divine. For students analyzing Greek tragedy and epic, Atropos represents the ultimate limit on heroic achievement and divine intervention—no matter how favored by gods, mortals cannot escape their appointed end. Her shears have become an enduring symbol of mortality in Western literature and art. When poets invoke Atropos or her shears, they typically emphasize inevitability, the futility of resistance, or the democratic leveling that death brings to all social stations.
Also Known As
Aisa
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