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

Home › Glossary › Letter E

Ephyra

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

Ancient name appearing in multiple Greek regions, most notably early Corinth. The shifting geography and variant traditions reflect the layered complexity of Greek mythic toponymy.

Detailed Definition
Ephyra, appearing in several Greek myths as an ancient city, evokes archaic cityscapes, heroic memory, and lost civilizations in poetry through its associations with founding legends and faded grandeur. This allusion allows poets to meditate on time's passage, cultural legacy, and the ghosts of history, using its name to conjure atmospheric depth in epic or elegiac verses that bridge personal reflection with collective ancestral echoes.
Example
Example in poetry:
Ephyra, an ancient city name, symbolises archaic splendour; A poet may set a love story in Ephyra for mythic tone; In epic geography, it deepens historical resonance; The name evokes layered antiquity.
Additional Notes
Ephyra represents the ancient name for Corinth and appears in Homer and other early sources, maintaining archaic nomenclature that later poets could invoke for elevated or antiquarian effect. The name also designates other ancient cities, requiring contextual attention to determine which location is referenced. For students analyzing geographical references in poetry, such archaic names serve multiple functions: creating historical depth, displaying erudition in epic tradition, and connecting narratives to specific locations known under different names to different audiences. Corinth's prominence in mythology (home of Medea, Bellerophon, Sisyphus) made its archaic name recognizable in literary tradition even after the city was universally called Corinth. References to Ephyra typically appear in elevated poetic style, particularly in passages drawing on Homeric or archaic traditions, and invoke Corinthian mythological associations while maintaining epic distance. Understanding such geographical nomenclature helps students recognize when poets deliberately use older forms to create specific effects or invoke particular literary traditions.
Also Known As
ancient Corinth water nymph mythic city
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