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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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I want.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the 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.

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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Delta the Mouth

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 northern expanse of Egypt where the Nile “speaks” through its many branches

Detailed Definition
As the Mouth, the Delta symbolizes communication, nourishment, and the outpouring of life into the sea. It was sacred to Sobek and Neith. Poets reference it to evoke themes of expression, fertility, and the generative power of water—often in lyrical or expansive verse celebrating Egypt’s life-giving geography.
Example
Example in poetry:
Delta the Mouth, where the Nile kisses the Mediterranean Sea; Poets imagine Delta the Mouth as “the lips of Hapi”; The Mouth Delta breathes life into Egypt through its many branches; In hymns, the Delta’s reeds shelter newborn gods; Delta the Mouth is both boundary and gateway to the world; Verse likens it to a mother’s embrace—nurturing and open.
Additional Notes
Delta the Mouth refers to its role as the “mouth” of the Nile, where the river speaks to the sea—this personification invites poems on communication between realms, nourishment given freely, or the meeting of fresh and salt waters as a liminal space.
Also Known As
Delta Region Nile Mouth
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