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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Myra

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

Ancient Lycian city, later associated with St. Nicholas (Santa Claus)

Detailed Definition
Myra was a Lycian center that became a Christian bishopric. St. Nicholas’s relics made it a pilgrimage site. Poets use Myra to evoke the transformation of Anatolian cities through sainthood, the blending of local and universal cults, and the maritime charity symbolized by Nicholas.
Example
Example in poetry:
A Christian hymn names Myra as Saint Nicholas’ bishopric of secret generosity; In a modern Turkish poem, Myra (Demre) embodies Lycian-Christian synthesis; A minimalist verse reduces Myra to rock-cut church and orange bloom; A post-tourism lyric contrasts Myra’s ancient theater with Santa Claus commodification; A historical meditation imagines Myra’s bishops debating Nicene creed.
Additional Notes
Myra in Lycia became associated with St. Nicholas, whose legendary generosity evolved into the Santa Claus myth; its early Christian basilica and port status made it a center of maritime piety—relevant for devotional poetry on saintly intercession and travel.
Also Known As
Lycian port Paul shipwreck bishop Nicholas
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