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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Correspondence

Witchcraft
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 symbolic association between an object and a magical quality, such as a color, herb, planet, or stone. Correspondences help shape ritual meaning.

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Symbolist Poetry — Symbolist poetry invites readers to attend to atmosphere, association and music as carefully as to narrative or argument. This guide traces the movement’s late nineteenth-century origins and offers a practical way to read poems whose meanings emerge through pattern rather than simple decoding.

Detailed Definition
In witchcraft, a correspondence is a traditional or personal connection between a material thing and an intention: rosemary may suggest remembrance, iron protection, green prosperity, or the moon intuition. Such links create a symbolic vocabulary for ritual. Poets use correspondences to build resonant images without direct explanation, allowing a bowl of basil or a blue ribbon to carry emotional weight. They also invite a poem to become a web of meaningful associations rather than a simple statement.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet uses correspondence by pairing rose petals with love, iron with protection, and the moon with intuition in a ritual scene; The line “On Thursday I carried tin for Jupiter’s expansive weather” demonstrates how planetary correspondences can shape imagery; In a seasonal poem, the speaker chooses orange, cinnamon, and sunflowers as correspondences for warmth and harvest; A poetry exercise can ask students to select colors, herbs, or stones whose traditional correspondences deepen a speaker’s intention
Additional Notes
Correspondence refers to a symbolic system in which materials or qualities are linked, such as red with passion, rosemary with remembrance, or the moon with cycles. These associations vary among traditions and practitioners. In poetry, correspondences can enrich a pattern of imagery, but their meanings should emerge from context rather than seem mechanically fixed.
Also Known As
Magical Correspondence Occult Correspondence mail Parallel
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