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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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Isaura

Historical Location
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

An ancient fortified city in Pisidia (southern Anatolia), noted for its resistance to Roman rule

Detailed Definition
Isaura was a mountain stronghold that defied Roman conquest until the imperial era. In poetry, it symbolizes defiant independence, inaccessible virtue, and the last stand of native cultures against empire. Its name appears in late antique and Romantic verse as a metaphor for unconquerable spirit or the solitude of remote sanctuaries—ideal for themes of resistance, isolation, and the romance of lost causes.
Example
Example in poetry:
Isaura; In Strabo, Isaura is the mountain fortress of Lycia, where the people resisted Roman rule, their names lost but their defiance etched in stone; Isaura; A 19th-century poem writes, “Isaura—where the walls still stand, though no one remembers who built them”; Isaura; In a modern poem, “Isaura: the place where silence became resistance, and stone became testimony”; Isaura; A student poem reads: “I climbed Isaura’s ruins—and felt the weight of a thousand unspoken no’s”; Isaura; The poet writes, “Isaura teaches: some rebellions leave no names, but they leave the shape of courage in the earth”; Isaura; “They call it Isaura, but I call it the monument to the nameless who refused to kneel.”
Additional Notes
Isaura, with its fierce resistance to Rome, becomes a poetic emblem of stubborn independence; its rocky citadel and defiant history make it a symbol of endurance against overwhelming force, often invoked in resistance poetry or elegies for lost freedom
Also Known As
Isaura Palaea
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