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 J

Jupiter

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

Supreme deity of the Roman pantheon, ruler of sky and thunder, and divine enforcer of oaths, law, and social order, equivalent to Greek Zeus.

Detailed Definition
Jupiter (Jove) rules the heavens and upholds cosmic and social order, wielding thunderbolts as symbols of his authority. In Roman epic—especially Virgil’s “Aeneid”—he guides Rome’s destiny with paternal wisdom. Poets across ages invoke Jupiter to signify supreme power, divine justice, or the inevitability of fate, using him as a touchstone for themes of sovereignty, morality, and the divine sanction of empires.
Example
Example in poetry:
Jupiter, king of gods, thunders in Virgil’s Aeneid: “Jupiter himself nods, and the world trembles”; Ovid’s Metamorphoses recounts Jupiter’s many disguises in love and judgment; Horace’s Odes hail “Jupiter Tonans” as guardian of oaths and justice; In Lucretius, Jupiter’s lightning is natural, not divine—but poets still invoke his name; Statius in Thebaid calls Jupiter “the father who sees all”; Ennius’ Annals opens with a dream visit from Homer sent by Jupiter.
Additional Notes
Jupiter (Greek Zeus) is king of the gods, god of sky, thunder, law, and justice; omnipresent in Roman poetry as cosmic ruler and Rome’s divine patron; appears in Virgil, Ovid, Horace, and Lucretius; symbolizes authority, fate, and divine will; useful for exploring power, oaths, and cosmic order; students should note his epithets (e.g., Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Tonans) and his role as “father of gods and men”; his lightning bolt (fulmen) is both weapon and sign; Roman state religion centered on his Capitoline cult.
Also Known As
Zeus Jove King of Gods Thunderer
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