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.

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

Tiberius

Historical Figure
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

Want to hear it? Click the Listen button to hear the browser speak the word using text-to-speech!

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

Roman emperor who succeeded Augustus, known for reclusive tyranny and suspicion

Detailed Definition
Tiberius’ reign began well but descended into paranoia on Capri. He was vilified by Tacitus. Poets invoke him as the reluctant ruler, symbol of power’s corrupting isolation, and the emperor whose withdrawal breeds terror in the vacuum.
Example
Example in poetry:
Tiberius appears in Roman and later poetry as the reclusive, suspicious emperor who retreated to Capri; Poets use his reign to explore the corruption of absolute power and the isolation of tyranny; His relationship with Sejanus inspires verses on betrayal, paranoia, and court intrigue; Modern verse may contrast Tiberius’s military competence with his personal cruelty; His withdrawal from Rome becomes a metaphor for disengaged leadership; Tiberius serves as a cautionary figure about the psychological toll of imperial rule.
Additional Notes
Tiberius (42 BCE–37 CE), second Roman emperor, reclusive and paranoid, succeeded Augustus; in poetry, Tiberius symbolizes withdrawn tyranny, the corruption of succession, or the shadow side of the Pax Romana—Tacitus’ portrayal shaped his sinister legacy; useful for analyzing poems on isolation, surveillance, or the decay of Augustan ideals in imperial verse.
Also Known As
Tiberius Caesar Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus
Skip to main content