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

Proconnesus

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 island in the Sea of Marmara, famed for its high-quality marble used in ancient sculpture

Detailed Definition
Proconnesus supplied marble for major projects, including Constantinople’s Hagia Sophia. In poetry, it symbolizes the raw material of art, the hidden source of beauty, and the geology of memory. Its quarries represent the uncarved potential that artists transform—making it a metaphor in verses on creation, labor, and the dialogue between stone and spirit across centuries.
Example
Example in poetry:
Proconnesus; In Herodotus, Proconnesus is the island famed for its white marble, quarried and shipped to build the temples of the Greeks; Proconnesus; A 19th-century poem writes, “Proconnesus—where the mountain gave its flesh to the gods, and the sea carried its bones to distant shores”; Proconnesus; In a modern poem, “Proconnesus: the place where stone became sacred, and the quarry became a temple”; Proconnesus; A student poem reads: “I touched the marble of Proconnesus—and felt the hand of the quarryman still shaping it”; Proconnesus; The poet writes, “Proconnesus teaches: the most enduring monuments are built not by kings, but by unseen hands”; Proconnesus; “They call it Proconnesus, but I call it the altar where the earth became worship.”
Additional Notes
Proconnesus, famed for its marble, is poetically a source of enduring beauty and material legacy; its mention evokes the transformation of raw earth into art, making it ideal for meditations on craftsmanship, permanence, and the silent labor behind monuments
Also Known As
Prokonnesos Marmara Island
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