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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Zakynthos

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

Ionian island off western Greece, homeland of Odysseus’s ally Thoas

Detailed Definition
Zakynthos appears in the Iliad as part of the Greek fleet and in the Odyssey as a neighboring kingdom. Poets use Zakynthos to symbolize the western Greek periphery, island loyalty in epic coalitions, and the maritime network of the Ionian Sea that sustained Homeric geography.
Example
Example in poetry:
Homer names Zakynthos as Odysseus’ loyal island of vineyards and swift ships; A Venetian lyric praises Zakynthos as “Fiore di Levante” with olive groves and baroque churches; In a modern Greek poem, Zakynthos embodies Ionian identity and 1953 earthquake resilience; A minimalist verse reduces Zakynthos to shipwreck cove and loggerhead turtle track; A post-tourism lyric contrasts Zakynthos’ mythic purity with cruise ship crowds; A historical meditation imagines Zakynthian sailors aiding Greek independence.
Additional Notes
Zakynthos (Zante), one of Odysseus’s allied islands in the Odyssey, was home to Thoas, a leader who fought at Troy; its inclusion in Homeric geography anchors it in the heroic network of western Greece—later poets and geographers treated it as part of the Ionian cultural sphere, useful for tracing how minor islands contribute to the mythic cartography of nostos (homecoming).
Also Known As
Zante Zakynthos Island Zacynthus
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