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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Trivia

Mythology
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

Roman epithet for Diana as goddess of crossroads and the underworld

Detailed Definition
Trivia (“three ways”) refers to Diana’s role at crossroads, where her triple form (moon, huntress, underworld) watches over transitions and choices. In Roman poetry—especially Virgil and Ovid—she is a liminal, mysterious figure associated with magic and ghosts. Poets use Trivia to evoke uncertainty, fate’s branching paths, or the eerie presence of the divine at thresholds between worlds.
Example
Example in poetry:
Trivia, epithet of Diana as goddess of crossroads, appears in Virgil’s Aeneid as “Trivia’s haunted groves”; Ovid’s Metamorphoses shows Hecate (as Trivia) guiding ghosts at night; In Horace’s Epodes, Trivia “howls with phantom hounds”; Roman curse tablets invoke Trivia at three-way paths; In elegiac poetry, Trivia “witnesses secret meetings”; Propertius fears “Trivia’s torch” revealing lovers’ trysts.
Additional Notes
Trivia is an epithet of Diana/Hecate as goddess of crossroads (tri-via = three ways); appears in Virgil and Horace; symbolizes liminality, magic, and the underworld; useful in nocturnal, magical, or ominous poetry; students should note her torches, dogs, and association with ghosts; crossroads were sites of offerings to avert evil; as Trivia, Diana merges with Hecate’s chthonic aspects; she witnesses secrets and transitions.
Also Known As
Hecate of Crossroads Triple-Faced Diana Night-Wandering Goddess Torch-Bearer Diana
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