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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Psyche

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

Mortal beloved of Eros whose trials led to apotheosis; symbolizes the soul’s journey through love, suffering, and transcendence.

Detailed Definition
Psyche’s beauty rivaled Aphrodite’s, leading to trials imposed by the goddess; her love for Eros and perseverance earned her immortality. Her name means “soul,” and her story allegorizes the soul’s journey through suffering to divine union. Poets use Psyche to explore love, trust, transformation, and the marriage of soul and desire.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Apuleius’s "The Golden Ass" (adapted poetically by Keats in “Ode to Psyche”), Psyche embodies the soul’s journey toward love; In John Keats’s “Ode to Psyche,” the goddess is newly discovered, symbolizing inner spiritual awakening; In Robert Browning’s “Pauline,” Psyche represents the idealized beloved; In W.B. Yeats’s “The Secret Rose,” Psyche’s trials mirror mystical initiation; In H.D.’s “Psyche,” the figure reclaims agency beyond passive myth; In modern feminist poetry, Psyche often signifies the integration of intellect and desire.
Additional Notes
Psyche, mortal lover of Eros whose trials symbolize the soul’s journey toward divine love, represents the integration of body and spirit; poets use her myth (from Apuleius’s The Golden Ass) to explore psychological depth, feminine resilience, and the transformative power of love—her name (“soul” in Greek) makes her a natural allegory in mystical and romantic verse.
Other Meanings of “Psyche”
Also Known As
Soul Embodied Lover of Eros Mortal Made Divine Personality Soul
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