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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Pygmalion

Mythology
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

Cypriot sculptor whose love for his ivory statue Galatea led to its animation by Aphrodite, symbolizing art’s power to embody desire.

Detailed Definition
Pygmalion, a Cypriot sculptor, carved a statue so beautiful he fell in love with it; Aphrodite brought it to life as Galatea. His myth explores the artist’s desire, the animation of art, and idealized love. Poets reference Pygmalion to examine creation, illusion, and the boundary between art and life.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Ovid’s "Metamorphoses," Pygmalion sculpts Galatea, who comes to life through Venus’s grace; In William Morris’s “Pygmalion and the Image,” the myth explores artistic creation and desire; In W.B. Yeats’s “Pygmalion’s Image,” the statue symbolizes unattainable feminine perfection; In George Bernard Shaw’s "Pygmalion" (rendered in poetic adaptations), the myth critiques social engineering; In modern feminist poetry, Pygmalion often represents male projection onto silent women; In Carol Ann Duffy’s “Pygmalion’s Bride,” Galatea speaks back, subverting the creator’s control.
Additional Notes
Pygmalion, sculptor who fell in love with his statue Galatea, brought to life by Aphrodite, symbolizes the artist’s desire to animate creation and the blurring of art and life; poets explore the ethics of objectification, the power of love to transform, or the creator’s hubris—Bernard Shaw’s play and its adaptations influence modern poetic treatments of agency and identity.
Also Known As
Sculptor of Love Maker of Galatea Artist Enchanted
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