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

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Giza the Necropolis

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 vast cemetery of Giza, where pharaohs ascended to join the sun god

Detailed Definition
As the Necropolis, Giza represents the city of the dead, where stone bodies house eternal spirits aligned with celestial cycles. It is a testament to divine kingship. Poets invoke it to explore mortality, the endurance of memory, and the soul’s journey among stars—often in elegiac or cosmic verse on permanence and decay.
Example
Example in poetry:
Giza the Necropolis, city of the dead facing the rising sun; Poets imagine Giza the Necropolis humming with ancestral voices; The Necropolis Giza links earth to stars through pyramid alignments; In funerary texts, souls ascend from Giza to join Orion; Giza the Necropolis is both tomb and launchpad for akhs; Verse uses it to contemplate legacy, memory, and transcendence.
Additional Notes
Giza the Necropolis underscores its function as a city of the dead facing the living city of Memphis—this duality supports poems on memory, the gaze of ancestors, or the enduring presence of the past on the landscape.
Also Known As
Giza Necropolis City of the Dead at Giza
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