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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Divination

Astrology
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 practice of seeking knowledge of the future or unknown through supernatural means, including astrology.

Detailed Definition
Divination: Astrology is a form of celestial divination, reading omens in planetary patterns. In poetry, it symbolizes the human hunger for meaning in chaos. Poets portray diviners as seers, fools, or guides—questioning whether stars dictate or merely reflect. Divination motifs appear in prophetic, ironic, or mystical verse, where the act of reading signs becomes a metaphor for poetic insight itself.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “Macbeth,” Shakespeare uses divination (via witches) to question fate’s malleability; Poets like Yeats practiced and wrote about astrological divination as a path to symbolic truth; Divination in poetry often appears as reading omens in stars, birds, or entrails; Emily Dickinson treats divination as intuitive knowing beyond reason; Modern poets frame astrology itself as a poetic form of divination; Divination in verse bridges mystery and meaning, chance and design.
Additional Notes
Divination is the practice of seeking knowledge of the future or unknown through supernatural means. Astrology is a form of symbolic divination—interpreting celestial patterns as omens or archetypal mirrors. In poetry, divination appears as prophecy, intuition, or reading signs (stars, birds, dreams). Shakespeare used it dramatically (e.g., “Macbeth”). Poets should note: modern psychological astrology frames divination as insight, not prediction—emphasizing choice within cosmic context.
Other Meanings of “Divination”
Also Known As
Augury Prophecy Fortune-telling Soothsaying Scry
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