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.

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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Myndus

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 Dorian city on the Bodrum Peninsula, noted for its naval resistance to invaders

Detailed Definition
Myndus was a small but defiant maritime city that resisted Persian and later assaults. In poetry, it symbolizes local courage, naval tradition, and the stubborn pride of minor polities. Though absent from major myths, its name appears in catalogues or historical verse as a token of coastal resilience—ideal for themes of micro-communities holding fast against overwhelming forces.
Example
Example in poetry:
Myndus; In Strabo, Myndus is the Carian port where the people carved their laws into stone and the sea carried their names beyond the horizon; Myndus; A 19th-century poem writes, “Myndus—where the law was etched, the prayers were whispered, and the sea carried both into eternity”; Myndus; In a modern poem, “Myndus: the place where the people spoke, and the ocean kept their voice”; Myndus; A student poem reads: “I touched the stone of Myndus—and felt the pulse of a democracy that did not need a vote”; Myndus; The poet writes, “Myndus teaches: some truths are not written in scrolls—they are carved into the rock, and the sea sings them”; Myndus; “They call it Myndus, but I call it the harbor where justice learned to sail.”
Additional Notes
Myndus, famed for naval resistance, is poetically a symbol of coastal defiance; its rocky shores and strategic harbor make it a setting for poems on courage, isolation, and the quiet heroism of small communities resisting larger powers
Also Known As
Myndos
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