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

Supermoon

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

Full Moon at perigee, heightening emotions and tides. Poetry supermoons swells as amplified lunations or supercharged nights.

Detailed Definition
Supermoon, close full, tides strong. In verse, it supermoons in tidal poems like Hughes'. Literary swells symbolize peak. The term's proximate pull poeticizes intensity, where supermoons magnify, mirroring emotional highs and the exaggerated poetry of lunar proximities.
Example
Example in poetry:
In lunar max by García Lorca, supermoon swells gypsy tides of blood; Modern poet Tracy K. Smith in "Sciamachy" supermoons shadow plays; William Wordsworth's "The World Is Too Much with Us" supermoons sea's pagan call; In eclipse poetry, supermoon perigee devours earth's disk, teaching amplified lunacy.|John Keats' "Bright Star" supermoons eternal vigil; T.S. Eliot's "Rhapsody on a Windy Night" supermoons lunar rats.|In Rainer Maria Rilke's "The Moon," supermoon veils the lover's path; Pablo Neruda's "Full Moon," supermoons the heart's tide.|In Sylvia Plath's "The Moon and the Yew Tree," supermoon yews the night.
Additional Notes
Supermoon perigee full Moon bigger/brighter, tidal extremes; emotional peaks. In poetry, it charges lunar swells like tidal passions—context: 3-4/year; usage: for rituals; students amplify lunations, for supercharged emotional verse.
Also Known As
perigee full moon enlarged lunar disk celestial giant
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