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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Oedipus

Historical Figure
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

Mythical king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother

Detailed Definition
Oedipus’ tragedy, dramatized by Sophocles, explores fate, knowledge, and self-discovery. Though legendary, he functions historically. Poets invoke him as the archetype of tragic irony, the seeker whose quest reveals unbearable truth, and the human caught in destiny’s web.
Example
Example in poetry:
Oedipus, solver of the Sphinx’s riddle, walked blind to his own middle; Poets use his tragic arc—fate, knowledge, and self-inflicted night; “All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong”—a line from Sophocles poets borrow; In psychological verse, Oedipus stands for unconscious desire’s fire; His name evokes the search for truth that wounds the seeker’s soul; Oedipus in stanzas: the king who sought truth and lost his eyes to it.
Additional Notes
Oedipus, Theban king who unknowingly killed his father and married his mother, is the archetype of tragic self-discovery; in poetry, Oedipus symbolizes the limits of knowledge, fate versus free will, or the unraveling of identity—Freud’s “Oedipus complex” adds psychological depth; referenced from Sophocles to modern verse (e.g., by Plath or Heaney) exploring blindness, truth, and familial taboo.
Also Known As
Oedipus (mythological figure; no historical aliases)
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