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.

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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Sagittarian

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

Of Sagittarius, the fire sign of philosophy and adventure. Poetry sagittarians arrows quests or centaurial wisdom pursuits.

Detailed Definition
Sagittarian, Jupiter-ruled, quests truth. In verse, it sags in exploratory poems like Lawrence's. Literary bows symbolize aim. The term's archer aim poeticizes expansion, where Sagittarians target horizons, enhancing motifs of journey, faith, and the far-flung poetry of optimistic fire.
Example
Example in poetry:
In W.B. Yeats' "The Tower," Sagittarian arrows pierce the gyre's winding stair; Modern poet Robert Hass in "The Apple Trees at Olema" quests Sagittarian freedoms in orchards; William Shakespeare's "As You Like It" roams Sagittarian woods with Jaques; In Ovid's "Fasti," Sagittarian centaurs teach archery of stars, educating on exploratory fire.|John Milton's "L'Allegro" hunts Sagittarian joys in mirthful chase; T.S. Eliot's "Gerontion" questions Sagittarian tigers in dry bones.|In Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Unicorn Tapestries," Sagittarian bows span mythic plains; Pablo Neruda's "The Archer," Sagittarian aims earth's revolutions.|In Walt Whitman's "Song of the Open Road," Sagittarian roads expand horizons.
Additional Notes
Sagittarian mutable fire quests truth, Jupiter-ruled for expansion/adventure. In poetry, it arrows philosophical pursuits like epic bows—additional: centaur myth; usage: 9th house; students centaurize wisdom, building on def for adventurous themes.
Also Known As
Archer Age Age of Sagittarius Sagittarius
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