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 D

Divination

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

The practice of seeking hidden knowledge through signs or ritual methods. It often concerns questions of fate and timing.

Detailed Definition
Divination is the search for insight through symbolic systems such as cards, dreams, stars, bones, flames, or the movement of water. In poetry, divination offers a way to portray interpretation itself as an urgent act: every bird, crack, and shadow may seem to carry a message. A divinatory poem can preserve uncertainty, showing that signs invite reading without ever guaranteeing a single final answer.
Example
Example in poetry:
A speaker practices divination by reading tea leaves, and the shifting shapes become images that forecast emotional change; A poem about tarot divination can structure each stanza around a card such as The Moon, Death, or The Star; In a modern poem, checking a cracked phone screen for an answer can be presented as a secular form of divination; The line "I asked the cards what winter wanted" uses divination to give an abstract season a voice
Additional Notes
Divination includes methods such as reading cards, casting lots, interpreting dreams, or watching natural signs. It is often less about certain prediction than about reflection, pattern, and the human wish to understand what cannot be known. Poets may use divination imagery to explore fate, uncertainty, prophecy, and interpretation.
Other Meanings of “Divination”
Also Known As
Fortune-Telling Augury Mancy
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