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 T

Theban Script

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 decorative alphabet used in some modern witchcraft traditions for magical writing and concealment. It can make a text appear secret or enchanted.

Detailed Definition
Theban script is an alphabet associated with early modern occult writing and later adopted in some contemporary witchcraft practices for spells, rituals, and private notes. Its unfamiliar characters can conceal a message from casual readers while making writing feel ceremonial. In poetry, Theban script may represent coded desire, forbidden knowledge, or the wish to protect language from intrusion. A poem need not reproduce the alphabet to invoke its effect; the name alone can suggest a page of secret signs.
Example
Example in poetry:
Theban Script can be used in a poem as a secret alphabet written around the margins of a page; “I copied your name in Theban Script so the ordinary world could not pronounce it” shows how the script can suggest privacy or protection; A poet can pair a readable line with its Theban Script version to explore what is gained or hidden through secrecy; A ritual-themed poem may describe writing an intention in Theban Script on paper before folding it into a charm.
Additional Notes
Theban Script is a cipher-like alphabet associated with some modern witchcraft traditions and often called the Witches' Alphabet. In a poem, its concealed lettering can evoke privacy, coded desire, forbidden knowledge, or the visual beauty of unreadable text.
Also Known As
Theban Alphabet Witches' Alphabet
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