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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Mortus

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

Rare poetic variant or synonym for Mors, representing death in Latin verse.

Detailed Definition
Mortus functions as a literary personification of death, used for metrical or stylistic variation. In poetry, it serves the same thematic role as Mors—emphasizing finality, loss, or the universality of dying—but appears less frequently, often in late antique or Christian-influenced texts.
Example
Example in poetry:
Mortus, Latin for “dead,” is not a deity but appears in poetic descriptions: "The mortus lie silent beneath Feralia’s moon"; In epitaphs: "Here rests a mortus—once beloved, now dust"; A lament: "Too soon, too fair—mortus before spring"; In philosophical verse: "Remember, you are mortus—live as if today is your last"; Symbol of transience: "All mortus return to the Manes—only fame lingers."
Additional Notes
Mortus is not a standard deity but a poetic or grammatical variant of “death” (from morior, “to die”); it appears occasionally in late or Christian Latin verse as a synonym for Mors; students should treat it as a literary device rather than a cult figure; its use may reflect stylistic variation or metrical need; in classical poetry, Mors is preferred—Mortus serves as a reminder of Latin’s flexibility in personifying abstract concepts.
Also Known As
death personified mortal end underworld shade
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