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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

Cupid

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

Roman deity of erotic love and desire, often depicted with a bow and arrows, and son of Venus (Aphrodite in Greek myth).

Detailed Definition
Cupid (Amor in Latin) wields arrows that incite love or aversion, embodying love’s irrational and transformative power. In Roman poetry—especially Ovid’s “Amores” and “Metamorphoses”—he is a mischievous yet potent force disrupting reason and order. Renaissance and later poets adopted Cupid as a symbol of passionate love’s capriciousness, using him to explore themes of vulnerability, obsession, and the tension between heart and mind.
Example
Example in poetry:
Cupid, god of desire, appears in Ovid’s Metamorphoses as the mischievous archer who wounds Apollo with love for Daphne; In Apuleius’ The Golden Ass, Cupid falls in love with Psyche, illustrating love’s trials; Shakespeare’s “Venus and Adonis” describes Cupid’s arrows as “blindly shot”; Edmund Spenser in The Faerie Queene portrays Cupid as both beautiful and dangerous; John Donne in “The Canonization” mocks Cupid’s power while affirming love’s sanctity; Propertius opens his elegies by blaming Cupid for his poetic suffering.
Additional Notes
Cupid (Greek Eros) is the god of erotic desire, often depicted as a winged boy with bow and arrows; in Roman poetry, he is both playful and cruel—central to Ovid’s Amores and Metamorphoses, and Apuleius’ Cupid and Psyche; symbolizes love’s irrational power, capable of humbling gods and mortals alike; useful for exploring paradoxes: love as both divine and disruptive, sweet and painful; students should note his duality—sometimes blind (impulsive), sometimes insightful; related to Venus (his mother) and contrasted with reason or pietas; Renaissance and later poets (e.g., Donne) inherit this complex portrayal.
Also Known As
Eros Amor The Blind Archer Winged Desire
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