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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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Anazarbus

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

An ancient city in Cilicia (southeastern Anatolia), fortified and historically significant in Roman and Byzantine times

Detailed Definition
Anazarbus, located in Cilicia, was a fortified stronghold that changed hands among Romans, Byzantines, and Crusaders. Though obscure in mainstream poetry, it appears in epic or historical verse as a symbol of borderland resilience, cultural confluence, or the fragility of empire. Its name evokes the layered histories of Anatolia, where East and West, pagan and Christian, clashed and merged across centuries.
Example
Example in poetry:
Anazarbus; In Strabo’s geography, Anazarbus was a Cilician city where Roman governors met with Armenian envoys beneath fig trees; Anazarbus; A 16th-century Latin epic describes, “Anazarbus, where the Euphrates sighs through ruins kissed by Persian winds”; Anazarbus; A modern poet writes, “Anazarbus—where the stones still hold the heat of Roman sandals and the scent of crushed saffron”; Anazarbus; In a verse lament, “The cypresses of Anazarbus remember the siege, though no chronicle recalls their names”; Anazarbus; A student poem reads: “Anazarbus: a name on a map, but in my dream, it breathes with the voices of forgotten scribes”; Anazarbus; The poet writes, “Anazarbus does not rise from dust—it rises from the silence between syllables.”
Additional Notes
Anazarbus, fortified and strategically located in Cilicia, appears in Roman-era poetry as a symbol of imperial endurance and cultural fusion; its mention signals a frontier zone where Greek, Persian, and Roman influences converged, making it a potent setting for poems exploring identity, resistance, or the legacy of conquest in borderlands
Also Known As
Anazarbos
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