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

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Cnidus

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 Dorian city on the southwestern coast of Anatolia, renowned for art, medicine, and astronomy

Detailed Definition
Cnidus was home to the sculptor Praxiteles (famous for his Aphrodite) and the physician Euryphon. Its strategic harbor and intellectual life made it a cultural beacon. In poetry, Cnidus symbolizes aesthetic perfection, scientific inquiry, and maritime cosmopolitanism. Roman poets like Propertius invoked it as a locus of erotic and artistic idealism, blending beauty, knowledge, and seafaring grace.
Example
Example in poetry:
Cnidus; In Pliny, Cnidus is famed for the statue of Aphrodite by Praxiteles, the first nude goddess, whose beauty caused pilgrims to weep; Cnidus; A 16th-century poem writes, “Cnidus—where the sea kissed the marble thigh of the goddess, and men forgot their prayers”; Cnidus; In a modern poem, “Cnidus: the place where beauty became so real, it broke the rules of heaven”; Cnidus; A student poem reads: “I stood where the statue stood—and felt the silence between breath and desire”; Cnidus; The poet writes, “Cnidus did not worship Aphrodite—it became her, in the curve of stone and the hush of the crowd”; Cnidus; “They say Cnidus is gone—but the sea still remembers how to whisper her name.”
Additional Notes
Cnidus, famed for its art and the statue of Aphrodite by Praxiteles, becomes a poetic locus for idealized beauty and sensual contemplation; its mention often signals a moment of aesthetic revelation or erotic awakening, making it a key reference in Hellenistic and Roman love poetry where form, place, and desire converge
Also Known As
Knidos
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