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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Parcae

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 three Fates (Nona, Decima, Morta) who controlled human destiny from birth to death.

Detailed Definition
The Parcae spun, measured, and cut the thread of life. In poetry, they appear as inexorable arbiters of fate—especially in epic and tragedy—symbolizing the limits of human agency, the tragedy of foreknowledge, and the cosmic order that governs mortal existence.
Example
Example in poetry:
Parcae, the Fates (Nona, Decima, Morta), appear in tragic and epic poetry: "The Parcae spin, measure, and cut—no prayer alters their decree"; In Catullus: "The Parcae’s threads are cruel—why weave so short a life?"; A birth scene: "The Parcae gather at the cradle—silent, stern"; Symbol of destiny: "Even Jupiter bows to the Parcae"; In Stoic verse: "Accept the Parcae’s gift—long or short, it is yours."
Additional Notes
Parcae, the Roman Fates (Nona, Decima, Morta), controlled human destiny from birth to death; they were feared and rarely worshipped; poets like Ovid and Catullus depict them as stern, unyielding; they represent the Roman acceptance of fate as immutable; understanding the Parcae is essential for reading Roman tragedy, elegy, and philosophical verse—where human effort contends with predetermined limits.
Also Known As
Fata
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