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

Sigil

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 designed symbol that concentrates a specific intention. It is often created, charged, and then released.

Detailed Definition
A sigil is a personal or ritual symbol made to embody a wish, command, or focused intention. Its lines may be drawn from letters, invented freely, or formed through repeated visual patterns. In poetry, a sigil can resemble a compressed metaphor: a small mark containing a large desire. Describing its creation allows a poem to explore secrecy, artistry, and the hope that private marks can influence an uncertain world.
Example
Example in poetry:
“She draws a sigil in the margin, a private emblem for courage” shows how a sigil can function as a personal symbol; “The sigil on the letter burned like a small black sun” gives an ordinary object a mysterious detail; A poet can create a sigil-like motif by repeating a unique image, as in “three feathers crossed above every doorway”; “His sigil was a crooked star, proof that imperfection could still protect” links visual design to theme
Additional Notes
A sigil is a designed mark representing an intention, name, spirit, or desired outcome in various magical and esoteric practices. In poetry, it can symbolize secrecy, private desire, coded identity, or the wish to make language materially effective. It relates to emblem, talisman, and symbol, but usually carries a more deliberate, charged purpose. Study hint: describe its shape, method of making, or concealment; those details can show how intention becomes action or artifact.
Also Known As
Magical Seal Seal
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