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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Phrygia

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 region in central Anatolia, famed for King Midas, the Great Mother Cybele, and Troy’s allies

Detailed Definition
Phrygia evokes mythic opulence (Midas’s golden touch), ecstatic religion (Cybele’s rites), and musical innovation (Marsyas’s flute). In poetry, it symbolizes the East’s allure, divine madness, and the danger of unchecked desire. Roman poets like Ovid used Phrygia to explore transformation, hubris, and the raw power of nature—contrasting its wild spirituality with Greek rationalism in complex cultural dialogues.
Example
Example in poetry:
Phrygia; In Herodotus, Phrygia is the land of the Phrygians, whose king Midas turned all he touched to gold—and whose people wept for their greed; Phrygia; A 17th-century lyric reads, “Phrygia—where the king’s touch was a curse, and the earth became a mirror of the soul”; Phrygia; In a modern poem, “Phrygia: the place where desire became stone, and the gods laughed at the weight of gold”; Phrygia; A student poem writes: “I touched the soil of Phrygia—and felt the chill of a king’s last, silent prayer”; Phrygia; The poet writes, “Phrygia teaches: the greatest tragedy is not loss—but the realization that you have become what you sought”; Phrygia; “They call it Phrygia, but I call it the mirror where greed learned its own face.”
Additional Notes
Phrygia, with its Cybele and Midas, is a poetic landscape of ecstatic ritual and moral ambiguity; its mention evokes the tension between Greek rationalism and Eastern mysticism, making it ideal for poems on transformation, excess, and the dangers of unchecked desire
Also Known As
Anatolian realm Cybele cult Trojan ally
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