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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

Home › Glossary › Letter A

Anemoi

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

The four wind gods who personify the cardinal directions: Boreas (north), Notus (south), Eurus (east), and Zephyrus (west). Sons of Astraeus and Eos, they controlled weather and storms.

Detailed Definition
The Anemoi are divine personifications of the four directional winds, each with distinct temperaments and seasonal associations. They appear in myths involving travel, storms, and divine messages. Poets invoke the Anemoi to symbolize change, emotional turbulence, or the forces of nature, frequently in epic, lyric, and pastoral poetry to animate natural phenomena with divine agency.
Example
Example in poetry:
The Anemoi—Boreas, Notus, Eurus, and Zephyrus—are invoked by Hesiod in Works and Days as seasonal forces; Poets use the Anemoi to personify emotional or political climates (e.g., “Boreas of war”); In Virgil’s Georgics, the winds dictate agricultural fate, ideal for pastoral allegory; Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” draws on Zephyrus as a regenerative force; Modern poets might assign each Anemoi a psychological state (e.g., Eurus as anxiety).
Additional Notes
The Anemoi—Boreas (north), Notus (south), Eurus (east), and Zephyrus (west)—are not just winds but personified forces with distinct temperaments: Boreas is harsh and masculine; Zephyrus gentle and spring-like. They appear in Hesiod, Ovid, and Nonnus, often as lovers (e.g., Zephyrus and Hyacinthus) or agents of divine will. Poets use them to animate weather with emotional or moral resonance.
Also Known As
Wind Gods
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