A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

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 C

Chelone

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

Nymph who mockingly refused to attend the wedding of Zeus and Hera. As punishment for her disrespect, she was transformed into a slow-moving tortoise condemned to carry her house.

Detailed Definition
Chelone disdained the divine nuptials and was punished by Hermes, who threw her house onto her back, creating the tortoise. The myth explains the animal’s shell. Poets invoke Chelone as a symbol of stubbornness, social obligation, and the consequences of rejecting divine celebration, often in fable-like or moralizing verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
Chelone, nymph transformed into a tortoise for refusing Hermes’ wedding invitation, appears in Aesop and later mythographers; Poets use Chelone to symbolize stubbornness or withdrawal; “Chelone’s shell” might describe self-imposed isolation in lyric poetry; Her transformation offers moral lessons on hospitality; The tortoise also symbolizes slow wisdom versus divine festivity.
Additional Notes
Chelone’s refusal to attend Zeus and Hera’s wedding—deeming it “boring”—leads to her transformation into a tortoise, condemned to carry her house forever. The myth explains the tortoise’s nature and critiques social neglect. Aesop and later fabulists use her story to teach humility; poets may invoke her to symbolize reclusiveness, stubbornness, or the consequences of rejecting communal joy.
Also Known As
Turtlehead
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