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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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Cella

Architecture
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 cella is the central enclosed room of a classical temple, usually housing the deity’s image. It can represent an inner chamber of worship or imagination.

Detailed Definition
The cella is the protected room at the heart of an ancient temple, where the divine presence was formally lodged. A poet may use it for the inward place where a cherished image is kept: a dead parent, a guiding idea, a private god, or a memory too important for public display. Its enclosure suggests both reverence and the limits placed around what is sacred.
Example
Example in poetry:
In a classical temple, the cella is the enclosed central room that houses the god’s image; “Her childhood was a cella, dark around one bright idol” uses the term for an inward sacred space; A poet may contrast the public colonnade with the private cella to explore appearance and belief; In a poem about archaeology, an empty cella can make the absent deity more powerfully felt
Additional Notes
The cella was the enclosed central room of a Greek or Roman temple, containing the cult statue rather than serving as a large congregational space. Its association with a housed deity gives it powerful inwardness. A poet might describe the cella as the chamber where imagination keeps its image, or where devotion becomes private and still. Related terms include naos, sanctuary, shrine, and temple interior.
Also Known As
Naos
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