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

Hex

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

A spell intended to harm, hinder, or curse. It can also mean a marked state of bad fortune.

Detailed Definition
A hex is a curse directed toward a person, place, or circumstance, often imagined as working through words, objects, or repeated intention. In poetry, a hex may take the form of a bitter address, a catalog of consequences, or a refrain that darkens each stanza. It can dramatize anger and justice, but may also reveal the moral cost of wishing ruin upon an enemy.
Example
Example in poetry:
“She feared the hex was hidden in the cracked mirror” uses hex as a source of suspense; “The hex of winter lingered in the orchard” turns a seasonal hardship into magical language; A poet might write “Your silence was no hex, though I wore it like one” to explore emotional harm without literal magic; “He broke the hex by naming each bird that returned” makes healing the answer to enchantment
Additional Notes
A hex may name the act of cursing, the curse placed on someone, or a run of seemingly bad luck. In witchcraft contexts, its force depends on speaker, target, and cultural belief; it can be literal, ironic, or metaphorical. Contrast blessing, charm, and jinx. Study hint: use surrounding imagery to determine whether the poem treats the hex as ritual power or emotional resentment.
Other Meanings of “Hex”
Also Known As
Curse Jinx Malediction
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