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 F

Fates

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

The three Moirai—Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos—who spin, measure, and cut the thread of every mortal’s life, symbolizing fate’s inevitability.

Detailed Definition
The Fates (Moirai)—Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos—spin, measure, and cut the thread of life. Even Zeus respects their decrees. In poetry, they symbolize inevitability, the inescapable nature of destiny, and the limits of free will against cosmic order.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Hesiod’s "Theogony," the Fates (Moirai) spin, measure, and cut life’s thread; In Virgil’s "Aeneid," the Fates decree Rome’s destiny beyond human will; In Dante’s "Divine Comedy," the Fates are subordinate to divine providence; In Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Prometheus Unbound,” the Fates symbolize oppressive determinism; In W.H. Auden’s “The Sea and the Mirror,” the Fates represent inescapable narrative structure; In modern poetry, the Fates often signify systemic forces beyond individual control.
Additional Notes
Fates (Moirai in Greek, Parcae in Roman), the three sisters who spin, measure, and cut the thread of life, symbolize inexorable destiny and the limits of free will; poets invoke them in meditations on mortality, fortune, and cosmic order—Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos appear in works emphasizing human vulnerability to forces beyond control, often contrasted with gods’ attempts to intervene.
Also Known As
Moirai Spinners of Destiny Weavers of Life’s Thread
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