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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Oceanus

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

Titan god of the great world-encircling river Ocean, which the ancient Greeks believed surrounded all land. Father of river gods and three thousand Oceanid nymphs with his sister-wife Tethys.

Detailed Definition
Oceanus is the primordial Titan who personifies the vast, encircling river believed to surround the world. Unlike other Titans, he remained neutral during the Titanomachy. In poetry, Oceanus symbolizes the boundless, mysterious origins of life and the eternal flow of time and nature.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Hesiod’s "Theogony," Oceanus is the river encircling the world, symbolizing primordial flow; In Homer’s "Iliad," Oceanus is invoked as the source of all waters; In Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind,” Oceanus informs cosmic circulation; In W.H. Auden’s “The Sea and the Mirror,” Oceanus embodies boundless depth; In modern eco-poetry, Oceanus often represents planetary interconnectedness; In Tracy K. Smith’s “My God, It’s Full of Stars,” Oceanus’ currents mirror galactic streams.
Additional Notes
Oceanus, Titan god of the great earth-encircling river in Greek myth, symbolizes primordial waters, cosmic boundaries, and the flow of time; poets invoke him to evoke vastness, origin, or the unconscious—his distinction from Poseidon (god of the sea) is important: Oceanus is older, more elemental, and less anthropomorphic, appearing in cosmogonic or meditative verse.
Also Known As
Titan of the River Encircler of the World Primordial Sea
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