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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Syzygy

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

An alignment of three celestial bodies along an approximate straight line.

Detailed Definition
Syzygy gives poetry a rare image of three forces arranged in tense, consequential relation. It may evoke a family triangle, a witness between adversaries, or the meeting of body, memory, and language. Alignment does not guarantee harmony; it can produce an eclipse, a tide, or a moment of concentrated pressure. In literary context, syzygy is useful when separate lives become temporarily legible as one configuration, each changing what the others can mean.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may use syzygy, the alignment of three celestial bodies, as an image of rare agreement; “In syzygy, the Sun, Moon, and Earth formed one sentence” gives cosmic alignment a grammatical shape; In a poem about reconciliation, three people may reach a syzygy in which their separate desires briefly coincide; The unusual term can emphasize that harmony is powerful precisely because it is uncommon.
Additional Notes
Syzygy means an approximate straight-line alignment of three celestial bodies, most commonly the Sun, Earth, and Moon. New moons and full moons are examples, and eclipses can occur when the alignment is close enough to the orbital nodes. The word can lend poetry a sense of union, tension, or rare celestial coordination.
Other Meanings of “Syzygy”
Also Known As
Celestial Alignment Astronomical Alignment Syzygia
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