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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Spartacus

Historical Figure
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

Historical Thracian gladiator who led a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic, symbolizing rebellion and dignity.

Detailed Definition
Spartacus’ rebellion terrified the Republic, though it was crushed with crucifixions. He became a symbol of liberation. Poets invoke him as the champion of the oppressed, the rebel whose cause outlives defeat, and the gladiator who turns chains into weapons of freedom.
Example
Example in poetry:
Spartacus appears in revolutionary poetry as the symbol of enslaved people’s resistance and the fight for liberation; Poets invoke his rebellion to critique oppression and celebrate collective action; His death is used to explore the tragic cost of defiance against overwhelming power; Modern verse often links Spartacus to labor movements and anti-colonial struggles; His leadership of a multi-ethnic army is cited as an early example of solidarity across difference; Spartacus serves as a mythic figure of hope for the dispossessed and a warning to tyrants.
Additional Notes
Spartacus (c. 109–71 BCE), Thracian gladiator who led a massive slave revolt against Rome; in poetry, Spartacus symbolizes rebellion, the dignity of the oppressed, or the tragic hero of the dispossessed—romanticized by Marx and later poets as a proto-revolutionary; useful for analyzing poems on freedom, resistance, and the body in chains as a site of political meaning.
Also Known As
Spartacus (no verified historical aliases beyond name)
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