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 H

Hera

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

Queen of the Olympian gods, wife and sister of Zeus, goddess of marriage, women, childbirth, and family. Known for her jealousy and vengeance against Zeus's lovers and illegitimate children.

Detailed Definition
Hera is the wife and sister of Zeus, serving as the queen of the Olympian gods and the protector of marriage, women, and childbirth. Often portrayed as jealous and vengeful due to Zeus’s infidelities, she appears in poetry as a symbol of marital fidelity, feminine power, and divine wrath. Her presence underscores themes of loyalty, betrayal, and the sanctity of oaths.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Homer’s "Iliad," Hera manipulates gods and mortals to punish Troy for Paris’s insult; In Aeschylus’s "Prometheus Bound," Hera’s jealousy drives divine cruelty; In Ovid’s "Metamorphoses," Hera persecutes Zeus’s lovers and offspring; In Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Prometheus Unbound,” Hera symbolizes vengeful orthodoxy; In W.B. Yeats’s “Leda and the Swan,” Hera’s curse on Leda’s line echoes; In modern feminist poetry, Hera is reclaimed as protector of marriage and female sovereignty.
Additional Notes
Hera, queen of the Olympians and goddess of marriage, represents fidelity, sovereignty, and vengeful jealousy (especially toward Zeus’s lovers); poets use her to explore the complexities of power within partnership, the sanctity of vows, or the wrath of the wronged—her peacock and cow symbolism connect her to regality and nurturing, yet her vindictiveness complicates her as a moral figure.
Also Known As
Juno of the Greeks Queen of Heaven Goddess of Marriage Juno
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