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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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Cappadocia

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 region in central Anatolia, famed for its volcanic landscape and early Christian communities

Detailed Definition
Cappadocia’s fairy chimneys and underground cities made it a refuge for early Christians and a crossroads of Hellenistic and Persian cultures. In poetry, it symbolizes spiritual retreat, geological wonder, and cultural endurance. Romantic and modern poets use it to evoke mystery, asceticism, or the dialogue between earth and faith—its surreal terrain serving as a metaphor for inner transformation or divine concealment.
Example
Example in poetry:
Cappadocia; In Xenophon’s Anabasis, Cappadocia’s plains stretch like a sea of stone, where the sun bleaches the bones of forgotten soldiers; Cappadocia; A 19th-century traveler’s poem writes, “Cappadocia—where the earth has been carved by wind and time into cathedrals of silence”; Cappadocia; In a modern poem, “Cappadocia: the sky is not above—it is beneath your feet, in the hollows of ancient dwellings”; Cappadocia; A student poem reads: “Cappadocia taught me that some prayers are carved, not spoken”; Cappadocia; The poet writes, “Cappadocia does not speak—it listens, and the wind carries your thoughts into the rock”; Cappadocia; “They called it Cappadocia, but I call it the cathedral the earth built with its own hands.”
Additional Notes
Cappadocia’s surreal landscape—rock-cut churches, fairy chimneys—becomes in poetry a metaphor for divine artistry and hidden sanctity; its use in early Christian and Byzantine verse transforms it into a symbol of spiritual refuge, while in classical texts it evokes mystery, isolation, and the persistence of ancient cults beneath Roman rule
Also Known As
Anatolian plateau fairy chimneys Persian satrapy
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