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

Home › Glossary › Letter N

Nox

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

The Roman personification of night, daughter of Erebus and Nyx, associated with darkness, mystery, and the veil between worlds.

Detailed Definition
Nox is the primordial personification of night, enveloping the world in darkness and mystery. In Roman poetry, especially Ovid and Lucretius, she is a powerful, ancient force preceding the gods. Poets use Nox to evoke themes of obscurity, rest, death, or the subconscious. Her presence in verse often marks transitions, secrets, or the sublime terror of the infinite, making her a key figure in cosmic and meditative poetry.
Example
Example in poetry:
Nox, goddess of night, appears in Virgil’s Aeneid as “kindly Nox, wrapping heroes in shadow”; Ovid’s Metamorphoses describes Nox “driving her dark chariot”; In Horace’s Odes, Nox “brings rest to weary limbs”; Seneca’s tragedies depict Nox as “mother of dreams and terrors”; In Roman hymns, Nox is “veiled in stars, sister of Death”; Propertius calls Nox “ally of secret love.”
Additional Notes
Nox (Greek Nyx) is the primordial goddess of night, daughter of Chaos; appears in Virgil, Ovid, and Seneca; symbolizes mystery, rest, death, and the unconscious; useful for nocturnal, elegiac, or ominous contexts; students should note her children: Hypnos (Sleep), Thanatos (Death), and the Fates; she is both feared and revered; in cosmology, Nox precedes day, reflecting ancient cyclical time; her chariot is drawn by dark horses.
Also Known As
Nyx Night Personified Veiled Darkness Mother of Sleep and Death
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