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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prophetic

Adjective
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

Foretelling or predicting future events in a poetic or visionary style

Detailed Definition
Prophetic in poetry describes a mode that claims visionary insight into future events, moral truths, or societal trajectories, often adopting an authoritative, urgent, or apocalyptic tone; rooted in biblical and Romantic traditions, prophetic poetry—like that of Blake or Ginsberg—seeks to awaken, warn, or transform its audience through revelatory language.
Example
Example in poetry:
Poetry that deals with foretelling future events, often religious or socio-political in nature; William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell for its prophetic visions of revolution and change; A poem delivered in an oracular or highly authoritative tone, as if from a divine source; Verses that warn of impending disaster or promise a future utopia.
Additional Notes
prophetic: Poetry that is focused on foretelling the future, delivering divine or spiritual messages, or commenting on the moral and political state of a society with an air of profound authority; Blake and Whitman offer examples.
Also Known As
Visionary prophetic-voiced foretelling Fatidical oracular Vatic
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