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 phases

Astrology
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 eight stages of the Moon’s monthly cycle, each with symbolic and emotional significance.

Detailed Definition
Moon phases: From New to Full and back, these stages reflect growth, climax, and decay. In poetry, they symbolize emotional states, women’s cycles, and the passage of time. Poets assign meaning to each phase—New Moon for intention, Full Moon for revelation, Balsamic for surrender. The phases provide a lyrical calendar, structuring poems around lunar time rather than solar. Their recurrence evokes eternity within transience, a key theme in elegiac and mystical traditions.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “The Moon and the Yew Tree,” Plath uses moon phases to chart despair and hope; Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” opens under a “new moon,” symbolizing young love’s fragility; Poets describe the waning moon as “the old woman gathering wisdom”; Full moon in verse often triggers revelation or madness; Contemporary poets sync stanzas to moon phases—new moon for beginnings, full for climax; Moon phases in poetry mirror emotional tides and feminine cycles.
Additional Notes
Moon phases—New, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full, Waning Gibbous, Last Quarter, Balsamic—mirror emotional and creative cycles. In poetry, they symbolize growth, climax, release, and introspection. The Moon rules Cancer and the 4th House. Poets from Plath to Rumi use phases to track inner states. New Moon = potential; Full Moon = illumination; Balsamic = surrender. Essential for feminine, intuitive, or cyclical verse.
Also Known As
Lunar phases Phases of the Moon
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