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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Station

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

Point where a planet turns retrograde/direct, intensifying energy. In poetry, stations pauses as pivotal halts or directional shifts.

Detailed Definition
Station, rx/direct, stations focus. In verse, it stations in turning points like Eliot's. Literary stops symbolize intensity. The term's momentary still poeticizes change, where stations pivot motions, allowing explorations of reflection, decision, and the pregnant pause of celestial turnings.
Example
Example in poetry:
In astrological ephemerides poeticized, station halts planets' direct gaze; Modern poet Cole Swensen in "Such Rich Hour" stations time in medieval light; William Blake's "The Tyger" stations creation's fearful symmetry; In direct motion pauses, stations pivot fate's direction, teaching turning points.|John Milton's "On His Blindness," stations talents in patient wait; T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" stations on beach's evening.|In Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Station," it frames the endless track; Walt Whitman's "The Sleepers" stations night's quiet train.|In Sylvia Plath's "The Stationary Night," stations black stars.
Additional Notes
Station retrograde/direct turns pause motion, potent like eclipses. In poetry, it halts directional pivots in stellar breaths—context: shadow period; usage: heightened awareness; aids pivotal pause interpretations.
Also Known As
Stationary Point Direct Station Garrison Outpost ranch
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