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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Salamis

Battles
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

A 480 BCE Greek naval victory over Persia, saving Greece from invasion.

Detailed Definition
Salamis preserved Greek civilization and enabled the classical golden age. In poetry, it symbolizes the triumph of freedom over despotism and the power of unity—frequently appearing in neoclassical and Romantic verse as a foundational moment of Western identity, where triremes and cunning defeated imperial might on narrow seas.
Example
Example in poetry:
Salamis, 480 BCE Greek naval victory, appears in Aeschylus’ “The Persians” as divine favor for freedom; A modern sonnet might frame Salamis’ straits as narrow gate to Western survival; In a dramatic lyric, a Phoenician rower recalls Persian ships jammed at Salamis; A free-verse elegy could mourn the Persian dead denied burial after Salamis; Contemporary poets use Salamis to reflect on sea power and democracy; A haiku might capture dolphins leaping through Salamis’ quiet waters today.
Additional Notes
Salamis (480 BCE) saved Greece through a brilliant naval ambush in narrow straits; in classical and modern poetry, it symbolizes intelligence over numbers, freedom over tyranny, and the power of unity—frequently invoked as a foundational moment of Western civilization.
Also Known As
Battle of Salamis
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