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

Home › Glossary › Letter S

Scrying

Witchcraft
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 divinatory practice of looking into a reflective or dark surface for visions. Common tools include mirrors, water, and crystal.

Detailed Definition
Scrying is the practice of gazing into a mirror, bowl of water, crystal, flame, or dark polished surface in hopes of receiving images or insight. Its poetic power lies in its uncertain vision: the observer may discover prophecy, memory, or only the mind’s own projections. A scrying scene can explore perception and self-knowledge, with the reflective surface becoming both a portal outward and a troubled mirror turned inward.
Example
Example in poetry:
A speaker practices scrying by looking into a bowl of dark water, allowing uncertain reflections to generate dreamlike imagery; A poem may use a mirror for scrying, with the speaker seeing not a prediction but a changing version of the self; The line "In the black glass, tomorrow trembled like a candle" shows how scrying can create vivid visual metaphor; A poet can contrast clear water with clouded water to suggest the limits of knowledge and the desire to see ahead
Additional Notes
Scrying is commonly linked with mirrors, bowls of water, polished stone, smoke, or crystal, though the central idea is sustained gazing rather than any single tool. Images seen in scrying may be interpreted symbolically. In poetry, it can represent self-examination, uncertain vision, reflection, imagination, or a threshold between surface and depth.
Also Known As
Skrying Crystal Gazing Crystal Reading Scry
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