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 O

Opis

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

Roman goddess of abundance and vengeance, associated with the underworld

Detailed Definition
Opis, sometimes linked to the Furies or chthonic deities, oversees retribution and the fulfillment of oaths. She appears in Roman myth as an avenger of wrongs, particularly against women. Though obscure in mainstream poetry, she surfaces in tragic or allegorical contexts as a symbol of divine justice and the inexorable consequences of broken vows, often invoked to underscore moral accountability.
Example
Example in poetry:
Opis, goddess of abundance, appears in Virgil’s Aeneid as companion of Ceres; Ovid notes Opis avenging Camilla’s death in the Volscian war; In Roman inscriptions, Opis is “helper of mothers in childbirth”; She is linked to Ops, goddess of wealth and harvest; In agricultural verse, Opis “fills the granary with golden grain”; Macrobius describes Opis as Sabine deity of plenty and aid.
Additional Notes
Opis is a Sabine goddess of abundance and aid, later associated with Greek Rhea or Juno; appears in Virgil (Aeneid XI) avenging Camilla; symbolizes maternal protection and swift assistance; useful in poetry about vengeance, childbirth, or rustic plenty; students should note her connection to the Opiconsivia festival and her role as consort of Saturn; her name means “help” or “plenty”; she exemplifies how Roman religion integrated Italic deities into state cult.
Also Known As
Helper Goddess Abundance-Bearer Sabine Opis Avenger of Camilla
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