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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Mnemosyne

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

Titan goddess of memory and mother of the nine Muses; embodiment of remembrance as the foundation of art, history, and poetic inspiration.

Detailed Definition
Mnemosyne is the Titan goddess of memory, whose union with Zeus produced the nine Muses, inspirers of arts and sciences. She represents the foundational role of remembrance in culture, history, and creativity. Poets revere Mnemosyne as the source of poetic inspiration and historical continuity—her name evokes the power of recollection to preserve truth, identity, and artistic legacy against the erasure of time.
Example
Example in poetry:
Hesiod writes, “Mnemosyne, mother of the Muses, bore them after lying with Zeus”; In Plato’s Phaedrus, souls drink from the river of Mnemosyne to remember truth; Milton invokes the “Heavenly Muse” as daughter of Memory in Paradise Lost; In “The Prelude,” Wordsworth seeks “spots of time” preserved by Mnemosyne’s grace; Poets call upon Mnemosyne to preserve history, song, and identity; Mnemosyne represents the foundation of art—without memory, no poetry can exist.
Additional Notes
Mnemosyne is the Greek Titaness of memory and mother of the Muses by Zeus; her Roman counterpart is less defined but implied in poetic invocations; appears in Hesiod’s Theogony and later hymns; symbolizes the foundation of art, history, and oral tradition; useful for proems, mnemonic devices, or reflections on forgetting; students should note that initiates in Orphic mysteries drank from her spring to retain memory in the afterlife; memory (memoria) was a core rhetorical virtue in Roman education.
Also Known As
Memory Titaness of Remembrance Mother of the Muses Mnemosyne the Rememberer
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