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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Retro

Astrology
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

Abbreviation for retrograde, apparent backward motion symbolizing review. Poetry retros introspects or reverses life's forward march.

Detailed Definition
Retro, inner loop, reviews karma. Poets retro in reflective verse like Wordsworth's. Literary backs symbolize reconsideration. The term's reversed gear poeticizes pause, where retrogrades rethink paths, inspiring themes of introspection, delay, and the backward glance of cosmic correction.
Example
Example in poetry:
In John Milton's "Paradise Lost," retro Mercury confounds Babel's tongues in backward speech; Sylvia Plath's "Mirror" reflects retro soul-searching in aging gaze; Modern poet Billy Collins in "Building with Its Face Blown Off" retraces retro steps through ruins; In Ovid's "Metamorphoses," retro planets reverse heroic quests, educating on review's wisdom.|William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" retrospectives Prospero's island exile; T.S. Eliot's "Prufrock" delays in retro hesitation's etherized time.|In Rainer Maria Rilke's "Autumn Day," retro laying of fruits prepares winter; Percy Shelley's "To a Skylark" contrasts retro earth's with forward song.|In Emily Dickinson's "The Soul selects her own Society," retro choices close the door.
Additional Notes
Retro motion reviews lessons, inner planet 3x/year, outer rarer; stations intensify. In poetry, it reverses introspective rivers like time loops—usage: for reevaluation; related to direct; students introspect reviews, enhancing backward glance themes.
Also Known As
Retrograde Retro Motion
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