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 C

Coeus

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

A Titan in Greek mythology representing intellectual inquiry and the axis of the heavens, father of Leto and grandfather of Apollo and Artemis.

Detailed Definition
Coeus is a Titan associated with intellectual inquiry, the axis of heaven, and the celestial poles, often linked to oracular knowledge and the pursuit of wisdom. Though rarely featured in surviving myths, he is the father of Leto and thus grandfather of Apollo and Artemis. His name, meaning “query” or “question,” makes him a poetic symbol for philosophical curiosity and the search for cosmic understanding—appearing in literature as a quiet embodiment of the mind’s reach toward the stars.
Example
Example in poetry:
Hesiod lists Coeus among the Titans who “dwelt beyond the earth’s reach”; Coeus is called “the inquiring one” in scholia on the Theogony; Poets associate Coeus with the celestial axis and polar constellations; In allegorical verse, Coeus embodies intellectual pursuit and cosmic questioning; His name (from Greek “koios,” meaning “to question”) appears in meditative poems on knowledge; Though rarely dramatized, Coeus serves as a symbol of the mind’s reach toward divine order.
Additional Notes
Coeus is a Titan associated with intellect, inquiry, and the celestial axis; his name may derive from a Greek word for “to question”; though absent from most Roman poetry, he appears in mythographic sources (e.g., Hesiod) as father of Leto and thus grandfather of Apollo and Diana; useful in allusive or genealogical poetry to evoke cosmic structure or intellectual lineage; students should recognize him as part of the Titanomachy narrative—overthrown by Olympians—and as a symbol of pre-Olympian wisdom; often grouped with other Titans like Crius and Hyperion.
Also Known As
Titan of Inquiry Pillar of Intellect Coeus the Questioner Father of Leto
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