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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Mohenjo-daro

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 Indus Valley city whose planned ruins reveal a sophisticated Bronze Age civilization.

Detailed Definition
Mohenjo-daro flourished more than four thousand years ago near the Indus River, with paved streets, drainage systems, public baths, and carefully arranged buildings. Because its script remains undeciphered and its decline is uncertain, the site carries an unusual silence. Poets can use Mohenjo-daro as an image of vanished civic order, mute testimony, archaeological wonder, and the intimate lives hidden beneath anonymous brick.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem may use Mohenjo-daro to evoke the sophistication of an ancient urban civilization; “The drains of Mohenjo-daro still remember the rain” turns archaeological remains into witnesses; A poet can contrast the city’s careful planning with the uncertainty of its disappearance; The name offers a way to explore how modern cities may also become ruins.
Additional Notes
Mohenjo-daro was a carefully planned Indus Valley city, noted for drainage systems, standardized construction, and undeciphered writing. Because much about its society remains unknown, poets may use it to evoke buried knowledge, lost urban worlds, silence, and archaeological discovery. It is usually dated to the Bronze Age.
Also Known As
Mohenjo Daro Mound of the Dead
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