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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Agnes

Folklore
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 name often associated with saintly or witch-like women in European folklore, embodying duality between piety and occult power.

Detailed Definition
Agnes appears in poetry as a liminal figure—sometimes a saint, sometimes a witch—reflecting societal anxieties about female spiritual authority. Her name evokes ambiguity: purity versus heresy, obedience versus rebellion, making her a potent symbol in works exploring gender, faith, and forbidden knowledge.
Example
Example in poetry:
Agnes; In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Christabel,” the spectral figure of Agnes haunts the forest, her whispering presence evoking forgotten sins and maternal grief;
Additional Notes
Agnes is a name steeped in European folk duality, embodying the tension between sanctity and sorcery—often used in ballads and witch trials to personify the feared "good woman gone bad." In poetry, Agnes evokes moral ambiguity, serving as a symbol for the silenced female voice reclaimed through magic; her name appears in medieval hagiographies and early modern demonologies alike, making her a potent figure for exploring gendered persecution in folk narratives. Poets may use Agnes to contrast pious imagery with occult undertones, especially in Gothic or Romantic verse, where her duality mirrors the liminal space between divine grace and diabolical pact.
Also Known As
chaste virgin lamb of purity Roman martyr
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