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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 C

Concordia

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 Roman goddess embodying harmony, social unity, and peaceful agreement, often invoked in poetry as a symbol of civic concord.

Detailed Definition
Concordia personifies peace and unity among citizens, often invoked during political strife or after civil conflict. Temples to Concordia were built to commemorate reconciliation, and poets like Horace praised her as essential to Rome’s stability. In literature, she appears as an ideal of civic virtue and collective well-being, frequently summoned in panegyric or didactic poetry to urge social cohesion and moral alignment.
Example
Example in poetry:
Concordia, goddess of harmony, is praised in Horace’s Carmen Saeculare as “Concordia, join our hearts in peace”; Ovid in Fasti describes her temple founded after civil strife to “bind citizens in unity”; Virgil’s Aeneid presents Concordia as the ideal state Rome should strive for; Seneca in De Clementia calls Concordia “the soul of the Republic”; In imperial coinage, Concordia appears holding a cornucopia and patera, symbolizing civic prosperity; Statius in Silvae invokes Concordia to bless imperial marriages and alliances.
Additional Notes
Concordia, goddess of harmony and social agreement, was central to Roman political ideology; her temples (e.g., in the Forum) were often vowed after civil strife, symbolizing restored unity; frequently invoked in Augustan poetry (Horace, Virgil) as an ideal of the Pax Romana; depicted with cornucopia, patera, or joined hands; useful in poetry for themes of reconciliation, marital peace, or civic virtue; students should contrast her with Discordia (strife); note that imperial propaganda often co-opted Concordia to legitimize autocratic rule as “harmony.”
Also Known As
Harmony Concord Social Unity Goddess of Agreement
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