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

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Converse

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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

Reverse progressions or directions in charts, exploring past influences on future events. Poets use converse motion for themes of regression or hidden timelines in reflective poetry.

Detailed Definition
Converse techniques, secondary to direct progressions, trace backward karmic threads in esoteric systems. In literature, they appear in time-bending verse like Eliot's, symbolizing memory's pull. The term evokes retrospection, enhancing cyclical motifs. Its inverted path poeticizes fate's loop, where converse stars rewind destinies, allowing explorations of regret, inheritance, and the nonlinear weave of temporal existence.
Example
Example in poetry:
In occult poetry by Yeats, converse motion reverses: "Converse wheels turn back the gyre's fatal spin."; Donne imagines converse love: "Our souls converse in retrograde, defying time's arrow."; Modern poet Alice Notley uses converse dreams: "In converse flow, the river runs upstream to source."; In H.D.'s "Tribute to the Angels," converse vision: "Angels converse the war's dark path to peace."; Louise Glück reverses converse loss: "Converse shadows reclaim the light once stolen."
Additional Notes
Converse directions regress charts backward, revealing karmic roots; used in progressions for past-life echoes. In poetry, they reverse flows like time in Borges—related to direct motion; tip: apply to solar arcs; aids understanding of retrospective themes, helping poets craft narratives of inherited destinies or reversed fortunes.
Also Known As
Retrograde Reverse Motion
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