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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Ops Consiva

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

Aspect of Ops, goddess of agricultural wealth, worshipped in her seated (consiva) form during harvest.

Detailed Definition
Ops Consiva represented stored abundance and fertile earth. In poetry, she appears in agricultural or hymnic verse as a symbol of peace, sustenance, and the cyclical rewards of labor—often invoked alongside Consus to celebrate hidden yet vital reserves of prosperity.
Example
Example in poetry:
Ops Consiva, goddess of sown wealth, appears in harvest hymns: "Ops Consiva, seated on earth, holds the buried seed’s promise"; Her festival (Opiconsivia) is secret, for priests only: "In the Regia, Ops Consiva is honored—silence guards her rites"; A prayer: "Ops Consiva, make the furrow fruitful"; Symbol of stored abundance: "Ops Consiva is the granary’s soul—hidden, vital"; In syncretism: "Ops Consiva and Consus, twin keepers of the earth’s treasure."
Additional Notes
Ops Consiva (“Ops the Sower”) was worshipped in a seated position (consiva from condere, “to store”), reflecting her role as goddess of stored agricultural wealth; her festival (Opiconsivia, August 25) was secretive, for priests only; she was consort of Saturn and mother of Jupiter; poets reference her in harvest contexts; she represents the hidden, stored abundance that ensures survival—contrasting with Ceres’ visible growth; her cult underscores the Roman reverence for reserve and preparation.
Also Known As
Ops
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