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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Orchomenus

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 city in Boeotia or Arcadia, famed in myth for wealth and Minyans

Detailed Definition
Boeotian Orchomenus rivaled Thebes and was linked to the Argonauts. Its treasury reflected Bronze Age prosperity. Poets use Orchomenus to symbolize faded grandeur, the cyclical rise and fall of cities, and the mythic depth of pre-classical Greece—often as a contrast to later Theban dominance.
Example
Example in poetry:
A Boeotian poet names Orchomenus as rival to Thebes, rich in myth and gold; In a neoclassical ode, Orchomenus symbolizes transient wealth and Minyan glory; A modern Greek lyric uses Orchomenus to explore Copaic Basin ecology; A minimalist verse reduces Orchomenus to treasury wall and lake reed; A historical meditation imagines Orchomenus’ fall to Theban hegemony.
Additional Notes
Orchomenus appears in two forms: a wealthy Boeotian city (rival to Thebes, home of the Minyans) and an Arcadian town; the Boeotian version, famed for its treasury and lake drainage by Heracles, symbolizes hubris and decline—useful for analyzing cyclical models of power in mythic geography.
Also Known As
Orchomenos
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