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

Cura

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

Obscure Roman goddess or personification of care, anxiety, or foresight

Detailed Definition
Cura appears in a creation myth recounted by Hyginus, where she fashions the first human from clay, prompting a dispute over naming rights with Jupiter. She represents the burdens of responsibility and the human condition of worry. Though rarely featured in mainstream poetry, Cura surfaces in philosophical or allegorical verse as a symbol of existential care, foresight, and the psychological weight of creation and mortality.
Example
Example in poetry:
Cura, the personification of care or anxiety, appears in Hyginus’ Fabulae as the creator of humanity from clay; In Seneca’s tragedies, Cura is the “ever-wakeful companion” of mortal life; Ovid alludes to Cura as the force that binds humans to worry and foresight; In Stoic poetry, Cura is contrasted with tranquility as a source of inner turmoil; Juvenal’s Satires depict Cura as the “shadow that dogs the rich and poor alike”; Marcus Aurelius in poetic fragments describes Cura as both burden and teacher.
Additional Notes
Cura is a uniquely Roman allegorical figure from Hyginus’ Fabulae, who creates humanity from clay and argues with Jupiter and Tellus over its ownership; her name means “Care” or “Anxiety,” and she embodies the human condition of foresight and worry; rarely appears in canonical poetry but is philosophically rich; useful in existential or moral poetry to explore the burden of consciousness; students should link her to Stoic and Christian notions of care (e.g., Heidegger’s “Sorge”); her myth explains why humans are mortal yet spiritually torn between earth and sky.
Also Known As
Anxiety Care Forethought The Clay-Shaper
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