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 Väki

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 Väki refers to Finnish folk spirits or "väki" (power/force) of the moon, embodying lunar essence in Kalevala-influenced nature magic and shamanism.

Detailed Definition
Väki are elemental forces. In poetry, Moon Väki captures animistic lunar energy, hidden powers in night, Finnish mythic depth, and the moon as living potency, evoking themes of natural communion, subtle magic, and the poetry of northern spirit worlds.
Example
Example in poetry:
Moon Väki in Finnish spirit poetry: 'Moon Väki, the lunar folk power, flows through forest and verse, animating words with ancient northern magic and collective energy.'; Poets invoke natural forces: 'Calling upon Moon Väki strengthens the poem, weaving invisible spirit threads into visible patterns of light and shadow.'; A mythic piece: 'Moon Väki stirs in the birch under moonlight, empowering the bard to speak with the voice of land and sky together.'; Moon Väki for connection: 'It links human creativity to the living world, teaching poets to draw power from respectful relationship with unseen forces.'; Folklore integration: 'In Kalevala tradition, Moon Väki infuses runes with potency, inspiring contemporary verses rooted in respectful animism.'
Additional Notes
Moon Väki refers to Finnish folk "väki" or power/force of the moon in Kalevala traditions, animating landscape and verse with northern spirit essence; students integrate it for respectful animist connections to land and lunar magic.
Also Known As
Finnish moon folk lunar spirits celestial beings
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