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

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Ides

Astrology
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 15th (full moon) in Roman lunar calendars, often ominous as in Caesar's fate. Poetry marks ides for mid-month crises or fateful reckonings.

Detailed Definition
Ides, from Greek "to divide," align lunations in Julian reforms. In verse, they doom in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." Literary midpoints symbolize turning. The term's lunar peak poeticizes climax, where ides bisect months like fate's blade, inspiring explorations of betrayal, culmination, and the dramatic pulse of calendric omens.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Caesar's fall by Shakespeare, ides warn: "Beware the ides of March, the soothsayer cries."; Ovid's calendars mark ides: "Ides bring the full moon's feast to Rome's old gods."; Modern poet Li-Young Lee ides inner: "The ides of self divide the heart's quiet month."; In Dante's journey, ides turn: "Mid-month ides pivot the pilgrim's dark ascent."; Seamus Heaney ides harvest: "Ides of August reap the potato's famine field."
Additional Notes
Ides, mid-lunar, tied to payments/omens; March Ides fateful. Poetry ides crises like Caesar—context: kalends/nones; marks pivotal moments.
Other Meanings of “Ides”
Also Known As
Ides of the Month
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