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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Placidus

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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

A house system dividing time proportionally, popular for personal charts. In poetry, Placidus sectors life's temporal houses or serene divisions.

Detailed Definition
Placidus, 17th-century quadrature, times ascensions. Poets house in structured verse like Milton's. Literary quadrants symbolize order. The term's temporal slice poeticizes segmentation, where Placidus houses parcel skies, mirroring compartmentalized existences and the measured poetry of daily spheres.
Example
Example in poetry:
In medieval poet John Gower's "Confessio Amantis," Placidus houses divide the lover's chart, guiding moral quadrants of desire; William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" implicitly nods to Placidus-like divisions in the prince's divided mind, as houses of action and reflection clash; Contemporary astrologer-poet Dale Fosse in verse uses Placidus cusps to map emotional boundaries in "Horoscope of the Heart"; In Geoffrey Chaucer's astrological prologues, Placidus systems frame narrative houses, teaching time's segmented flow.|Dante Alighieri's "Purgatorio" segments souls in Placidus-inspired realms of purification; Modern poet Anne Sexton's "The Starry Night" houses Van Gogh's turmoil in Placidus angles.|In John Donne's "An Anatomy of the World," Placidus divides the microcosm's fragile spheres; Louise Glück's "The House on Marshland" uses Placidus to confine familial ghosts.|In Alexander Pope's "Essay on Man," Placidus orders the soul's domestic cosmos.
Additional Notes
Placidus system, 17th-century invention, uses semi-arcs for unequal houses in higher latitudes; favored for psychological depth over equal house. Poets sector time's flow in temporal verses—context: vs. whole sign; usage tip: adjust for polar regions; helps professors teach house dynamics, enabling students to map life's phases poetically through proportional time divisions.
Also Known As
Placidus House System
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