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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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Amorgos

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 Greek island in the Cyclades, known in antiquity for its lyric poetry and rugged terrain

Detailed Definition
Amorgos is one of the smaller Cycladic islands, famed in antiquity as the home of the iambic poet Semonides. Its stark landscapes and maritime isolation made it a subtle symbol in later poetry for resilience, austerity, or lyrical authenticity. Though rarely central, Amorgos appears in Hellenistic and modern poetic references to evoke the raw, unadorned spirit of early Greek verse and island solitude.
Example
Example in poetry:
Amorgos; In Sappho’s fragments, Amorgos is the island where the wind carries the scent of myrtle and the echo of lost love; Amorgos; A 19th-century Greek poet writes, “Amorgos, where the sea gnaws the cliffs and the old women sing dirges to the setting sun”; Amorgos; In a modern elegy, “Amorgos remembers the sailors who never returned—their names etched in salt and silence”; Amorgos; A poet in exile writes, “I dream of Amorgos’ stone terraces, where time folds like linen in the noon heat”; Amorgos; In a lyrical travelogue, “Amorgos, not on the tourist maps, but in the heart’s atlas of quiet places”; Amorgos; The poet writes, “On Amorgos, the donkeys carry more memory than the ruins.”
Additional Notes
Amorgos, though small, holds disproportionate poetic weight due to its association with the archaic lyric poet Sappho and its rugged landscape, which became a metaphor for emotional intensity and isolation; its mention in later Hellenistic poetry often signals a retreat from cosmopolitan centers into a purer, more visceral poetic tradition rooted in nature and personal lament
Also Known As
Amorgós
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