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

Fauna

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

Roman goddess of fertility, healing herbs, and women’s secrets

Detailed Definition
Fauna, sometimes identified as the sister or wife of Faunus, presided over female fertility and herbal medicine. Her cult was exclusive to women, and her rites were shrouded in secrecy. In poetic contexts, she appears as a guardian of feminine knowledge and natural healing. Though rarely central, she is referenced in allegorical or mythological verse to evoke themes of hidden wisdom, botanical power, and the sanctity of women’s mysteries.
Example
Example in poetry:
Fauna, goddess of fertility and healing, is honored in Ovid’s Fasti as sister and consort of Faunus; She is invoked in rustic hymns as “she who speaks for silent beasts”; In Roman ritual, women celebrated the Faunalia in her honor, seeking protection for livestock; Macrobius describes Fauna as “Good Goddess” (Bona Dea), whose rites excluded men; She appears in inscriptions as “Fauna Fatua,” linking prophecy and nature; In pastoral poetry, Fauna symbolizes the nurturing voice of the wild.
Additional Notes
Fauna, also known as Bona Dea (“Good Goddess”), is a Roman fertility deity associated with healing, prophecy, and women’s rites; her festival (Faunalia) was exclusively for women, and men were forbidden under penalty of death; Ovid’s Fasti provides key poetic insight, though he was exiled partly for alleged impiety toward her cult; useful in poetry for exploring female secrecy, nature’s hidden powers, or religious taboo; students should distinguish her from Greek nymphs; she is often paired with Faunus as sister-consort; represents the domesticated yet mysterious side of nature.
Also Known As
Bona Dea Good Goddess Nymph of Fertility Sister of Faunus beasts
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