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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Juno

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 Roman gods, goddess of marriage, women, and the state

Detailed Definition
Juno is Jupiter’s wife and protector of Rome, overseeing marriage, childbirth, and female life stages. In Virgil’s “Aeneid,” she is a complex figure—both antagonist and divine force shaping destiny. Poets invoke Juno to represent marital fidelity, civic pride, or divine wrath. Her dual role as nurturer and avenger makes her a rich symbol in epic and lyric poetry exploring loyalty, power, and the feminine divine.
Example
Example in poetry:
Juno, queen of gods, appears in Virgil’s Aeneid as fierce protector of Carthage and adversary of Aeneas; Ovid’s Metamorphoses shows Juno punishing Callisto for Jupiter’s infidelity; In Horace’s Carmen Saeculare, Juno is “Lucina,” aiding childbirth; Propertius swears by “Juno of the sacred goose” on the Capitol; Catullus 64 depicts Juno at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis; In Roman state poetry, Juno Moneta warns of threats to Rome’s safety.
Additional Notes
Juno (Greek Hera) is queen of the gods, goddess of marriage, women, and the state; central to Virgil’s Aeneid as Aeneas’ divine antagonist; appears in Ovid, Horace, and Roman hymns; symbolizes sovereignty, jealousy, and protective fury; useful for exploring gender, power, and divine intervention; students should note her many epithets (e.g., Juno Moneta, Juno Lucina) reflecting diverse roles; her sacred animal is the peacock; as Juno Regina, she forms the Capitoline Triad with Jupiter and Minerva.
Other Meanings of “Juno”
Also Known As
Hera Queen of Heaven Juno Regina Protector of Women
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