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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Tempora Mutantur

Latin Phrases
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 Latin phrase meaning "times change," often completed as "and we change with them," reflecting on the relentless passage of time.

Detailed Definition
“Tempora mutantur” states the continual alteration of customs, fortunes, landscapes, and human selves. In verse it can introduce nostalgia, cultural criticism, or a recognition that the past cannot be recovered unchanged. The phrase is powerful when paired with recurring natural images, because the poem can show both continuity and transformation: rivers remain, yet no traveler meets quite the same river twice.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet can use “Tempora mutantur” to mark the changing fortunes of a family or nation; the phrase, meaning “times change,” works well as a refrain between historical scenes; in a poem about new technology, it can express both wonder and unease; followed by “and we change with them,” it becomes a clear meditation on adaptation
Additional Notes
“Tempora Mutantur” means “Times change,” often from the longer proverb “Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis,” meaning “Times change, and we change with them.” The phrase may signal historical change, shifting customs, personal growth, or nostalgia. Its compact form works well as an epigraph or refrain.
Also Known As
Times Change Times Are Changed
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