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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Memphis

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 capital of Egypt, near the Nile Delta, center of worship for Ptah

Detailed Definition
Memphis was a major political and religious hub of ancient Egypt, home to the temple of Ptah and the necropolis of Saqqara. In biblical texts, it appears as “Noph” (Isaiah 19:13). Poets reference Memphis to evoke Egyptian grandeur, the weight of time, and the futility of human monuments—contrasting its ruins with eternal truths.
Example
Example in poetry:
In ancient Egyptian hymns (poetic form), Memphis is praised as a center of Ptah’s creation; The Greek poet Pindar references Memphis in odes to exotic wisdom; Modern Egyptian poets reclaim Memphis as a pharaonic root of national identity; In archaeological verse, Memphis symbolizes buried glory and rediscovery; Contemporary poetry uses Memphis to explore Nile-centered civilization and memory.
Additional Notes
Memphis was Egypt’s ancient capital, dedicated to Ptah. In poetry, it symbolizes pharaonic power, buried glory, and Nile-centered civilization. Modern Egyptian poets reclaim it as national root. Students should distinguish it from Tennessee’s Memphis and note its association with the Step Pyramid and Saqqara necropolis.
Also Known As
White Walls Inebu-hedj Capital of Lower Egypt City of Ptah
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