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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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Acarnania

Historical Location
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 region in northwestern Greece bordering the Ionian Sea, known in antiquity for its rugged terrain and tribal society

Detailed Definition
Acarnania appears in classical literature as a wild, mountainous region often contrasted with more civilized Greek poleis. Its people were regarded as hardy and independent, and the area features in historical accounts like Thucydides’ histories and in poetic allusions to remote or untamed lands. Roman poets occasionally referenced Acarnania to evoke themes of exile, rustic virtue, or the periphery of the Hellenic world.
Example
Example in poetry:
In a modern elegy, the poet invokes Acarnania’s rugged coasts to symbolize resilience amid personal loss; A Romantic-era sonnet contrasts Acarnania’s wild landscapes with the order of Athenian thought; A 20th-century poem uses Acarnania as a metaphor for forgotten histories, its name evoking silence and erasure; In a pastoral ode, Acarnania appears as a sanctuary where shepherds converse with ancient nymphs; A contemporary poet references Acarnania to critique imperial cartography, reclaiming its voice through lyrical geography.
Additional Notes
Acarnania’s rugged landscape and relative isolation in northwestern Greece made it a frequent backdrop for tales of rustic virtue or lawlessness in classical literature; poets and historians like Thucydides noted its tribal autonomy, which persisted even during the Peloponnesian War—useful context for interpreting references to Acarnania as a symbol of untamed or marginal Hellenic identity.
Also Known As
Akarnania
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