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 Mirror

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

The Moon Mirror is a folkloric and poetic image of the moon as a reflective surface showing truths, fates, or distant scenes, common in East Asian and European traditions.

Detailed Definition
It ties to scrying or self-reflection. In poetry, the Moon Mirror represents illusion versus reality, introspective clarity, the cosmos gazing back, and lunar revelation, evoking themes of vanity, prophecy, and the soul's encounter with its celestial double.
Example
Example in poetry:
Moon Mirror in reflective poetry: 'Moon Mirror reflects the seeker's face back distorted by emotion, helping poets examine self through lunar honesty.'; Poets use for insight: 'Gazing into the Moon Mirror reveals hidden layers, turning personal truth into universal, resonant imagery.'; A contemplative piece: 'The Moon Mirror never lies, though its surface ripples with tides, teaching acceptance of fluid identity in verse.'; Moon Mirror for clarity: 'It borrows the sun's brilliance to illuminate what daylight conceals, sharpening the bard's observational skill.'; Symbolic tool: 'As Moon Mirror, the poem itself becomes a reflective surface where readers confront their own inner night skies.'
Additional Notes
The Moon Mirror, folkloric image of the moon as reflective surface revealing truths, fates, or distant scenes, serves poetry as a tool for self-examination and fluid identity under lunar honesty.
Also Known As
lunar reflector celestial glass night orb
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