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

Doomed

Folklore
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

Fated for destruction, often by supernatural decree, magical curse, or cosmic imbalance, with no escape possible.

Detailed Definition
Doomed in poetry embodies tragic inevitability and the weight of prophecy. It appears in epic and mythic verse as the quiet resignation before collapse—where characters know their end, yet walk toward it, making their final acts heroic, not futile.
Example
Example in poetry:
“We were doomed from the first glance” gives romantic love a fatalistic, Gothic charge; Greek tragedy makes doom feel shaped by prophecy, kinship, or fate; “Doomed as a firefly in amber” pairs beauty with entrapment; Contemporary poems may question the word, asking whether “doomed” is destiny or a story people choose to repeat
Additional Notes
Doomed describes a fate sealed by supernatural decree, cosmic imbalance, or ancient prophecy—with no escape possible. In folklore, the doomed are marked by omens, dreams, or ancestral curses. In poetry, this term evokes tragic inevitability—the Greek moira, the Norse wyrd. Think of Macbeth, Oedipus, or the Lady of Shalott. Doomed figures are not guilty; they are chosen. Poets use this to explore fate vs. free will, the weight of legacy, and the beauty of tragic endurance.
Also Known As
Condemned Destined accursed Cursed fey
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