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 B

Beaver Moon

Folklore
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 Beaver Moon is the full moon in November, when beavers build winter dams and are trapped for pelts.

Detailed Definition
It signals the final preparations before deep freeze. Some call it the Frost Moon. In poetry, it evokes industriousness, foresight, the trapping of wild things, and the moon illuminating necessary but harsh survival acts, often used to explore themes of industry, entrapment, seasonal closure, and nature's pragmatic cruelty.
Example
Example in poetry:
Poets evoke Beaver Moon in November: 'Beaver Moon, builder of dams and dreams, floods the marsh with silver light and the heart with industrious spirit.'; In traditional verse: 'When Beaver Moon hangs low, the trapper and poet alike dream of winter's stores and frozen streams gleaming under its gaze.'; A community poem uses Beaver Moon: 'Beaver Moon illuminates the lodge, its light a shield against the cold, teaching us to weave lives as tightly as sticks and mud.'; Beaver Moon symbolizes preparation: 'Beaver Moon calls the waters to rise, inspiring verses of collective effort and the quiet industry of the wild.'; Seasonal reflection: 'Beaver Moon, you herald gathering time, your fullness a reminder of nature's practical grace in the face of coming frost.'
Additional Notes
The Beaver Moon names November's full moon in Algonquin and colonial folklore, referring to beavers actively building dams and lodges for winter or the season when trappers set snares for pelts before swamps froze; it underscores themes of industrious preparation, community shelter, and resourceful survival against encroaching cold; poetry students benefit from using it to craft imagery of woven structures, rising waters under silver light, or quiet industry mirroring the poet's own gathering of words before winter's introspection; related terms include Frost Moon or Freezing Moon, offering opportunities to explore human-animal interconnections and seasonal lore in North American traditions for authentic, layered verse.
Also Known As
Frost Moon Freezing Moon
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