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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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Creusa

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

Daughter of Erechtheus, king of Athens, who was seduced by Apollo and bore Ion, ancestor of the Ionian Greeks. Central figure in Euripides' Ion exploring legitimacy and divine parentage.

Detailed Definition
Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus, was raped by Apollo and abandoned her son Ion, later reunited with him through divine intervention. Her story explores trauma, divine abandonment, and reconciliation. Poets reference Creusa in tragic and lyric verse to examine maternal grief, oracular ambiguity, and the complexities of divine-human relations.
Example
Example in poetry:
Creusa, daughter of Erechtheus or wife of Aeneas, appears in Euripides and Virgil; Poets use Creusa to explore loss (she dies fleeing Troy in Aeneid); In Euripides’ Ion, she’s mother of Ion—ideal for recognition scenes; “Creusa’s shade” offers ghostly guidance in epic; Her dual myths suit poems about maternal absence.
Additional Notes
Creusa (or Glauke) of Athens is central to Euripides’ Ion: raped by Apollo, she abandons her infant Ion, later reunited through divine intervention. Her story explores divine injustice, maternal shame, and reconciliation. Unlike Medea’s Creusa, this figure embodies Athenian autochthony and priestly legitimacy—key for studies of tragedy, gender, and civic identity in classical drama.
Also Known As
Kreousa
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