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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Scylla

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

Six-headed sea monster dwelling in the Strait of Messina who snatched and devoured passing sailors. Originally a beautiful nymph transformed by jealous Circe or Amphitrite into a monstrosity.

Detailed Definition
Scylla, originally a beautiful nymph, was turned into a six-headed monster by Circe out of jealousy. She haunted the Strait of Messina opposite Charybdis. In poetry, she symbolizes unavoidable danger, the transformation of beauty into terror, and the perils of navigation—literal and metaphorical.
Example
Example in poetry:
Scylla, transformed from nymph to monster, devours sailors in Homer’s Odyssey; In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Circe poisons the sea to create Scylla; Virgil describes Scylla’s lair in Aeneid III; Lycophron’s Alexandra references her as a sea terror; Renaissance epic poetry uses Scylla to symbolize unavoidable danger; Modern verse employs Scylla (with Charybdis) as a metaphor for impossible choices.
Additional Notes
Scylla, once a nymph transformed into a six-headed monster by Circe’s jealousy, devours sailors near Charybdis; her metamorphosis (Ovid) highlights betrayal and irreversible change—ideal for poetry on maritime danger, female monstrosity, or the horror of partial transformation.
Also Known As
Six-Headed Terror Rock-Monster of the Strait Skylla
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