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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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Abu Simbel

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

A site of two massive rock-cut temples built by Ramesses II in Nubia

Detailed Definition
Abu Simbel features colossal statues of Ramesses II and a smaller temple dedicated to Hathor and Nefertari. The temples align with solar events, showcasing divine kingship and cosmic order. Poets reference Abu Simbel to reflect on human ambition, the endurance of monuments, and the interplay between light, time, and divinity in desert landscapes.
Example
Example in poetry:
Abu Simbel stands sentinel where Ramses carved his glory into living rock; At Abu Simbel, the sun pierces the sanctuary to kiss the pharaoh’s brow; Poets describe Abu Simbel as a mountain reshaped by divine ambition; The twin temples of Abu Simbel watch over Nubia like eternal guardians; In verse, Abu Simbel’s colossi are likened to gods who never sleep; Dawn at Abu Simbel reveals hieroglyphs glowing like whispered prayers.
Additional Notes
Abu Simbel refers to the twin rock-cut temples in Nubia built by Ramesses II; the larger temple honors Ramesses and the gods Ra-Horakhty, Amun, and Ptah, while the smaller is dedicated to Hathor and Queen Nefertari—its colossal statues and solar alignment (illuminating inner sanctum twice yearly) offer rich imagery for poems exploring power, time, divinity, or cosmic order.
Also Known As
Abu Simbel Temples Temple of Ramesses II
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