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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Moon Madness

Folklore
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

Moon Madness describes the folk belief that full moons trigger erratic behavior, lycanthropy, or heightened emotions in humans and animals.

Detailed Definition
It underlies superstitions of werewolves and insomnia. In poetry, Moon Madness captures uncontrollable passion, creative delirium, the blurring of reason under lunar sway, and humanity's tether to cosmic forces, inspiring verses on transformation, desire's peak, and the thin line between enlightenment and chaos.
Example
Example in poetry:
Moon Madness in ecstatic poetry: 'Moon Madness seizes the sensitive soul, flooding it with visions that demand translation into feverish, brilliant verse.'; Poets explore altered states: 'Under Moon Madness, ordinary boundaries dissolve, allowing surreal imagery and innovative forms to take root.'; A passionate piece: 'Moon Madness is the lover's frenzy and the artist's gift, transforming potential chaos into ordered yet alive poetry.'; Moon Madness for breakthrough: 'It pushes past convention, where the 'mad' poet finds truths too bright for daylight reason alone.'; Cultural note: 'Historically linked to lunacy, Moon Madness is reclaimed as the divine spark that ignites enduring creative fire.'
Additional Notes
Moon Madness stems from folk beliefs in full moons triggering erratic behavior or lycanthropy, yet inspires ecstatic, boundary-breaking verse; reclaimed as divine creative surge, it connects to Lunatic lore for explorations of passion and altered states.
Also Known As
lunacy celestial frenzy tidal delirium
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