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

Home › Glossary › Letter P

Procne

Literary Character
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

Athenian princess who, after her sister Philomela’s violation, enacted brutal revenge—symbolizing justice, trauma, and metamorphosis in myth.

Detailed Definition
Procne’s transformation into a swallow after killing her son Itys, in Ovid’s version, makes her a figure of vengeful justice and maternal horror. In poetry, she appears as a symbol of righteous fury, the cycle of violence, and the dark side of sisterly loyalty, often paired with Philomela in laments on trauma and retribution.
Example
Example in poetry:
Procne in Ovid’s "Metamorphoses" becomes a nightingale after avenging her sister Philomela’s violation, embodying maternal fury and transformation; In Sophocles’ lost play "Tereus," Procne’s vengeance likely formed a tragic climax; Modern feminist poetry reclaims Procne as a figure of justified rage against patriarchal violence; Her story is often paired with Philomela’s to explore sisterhood, trauma, and metamorphic justice in lyric form.
Additional Notes
Procne, sister of Philomela in Ovid’s myth, takes brutal revenge for her sister’s violation by serving her son to her husband; her literary character complicates notions of justice and maternal identity, offering a dark counterpoint to passive female victims and illustrating how trauma fuels transgressive agency in poetic narrative.
Also Known As
Prokne
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