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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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Aibell

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

Aibell is a fairy queen and prophetess associated with death and fate.

Detailed Definition
She is said to appear before battle, foretelling doom with her magical harp. In poetry, Aibell represents the eerie beauty of prophecy and the inevitability of death. Her spectral presence adds a haunting dimension to themes of war and destiny.
Example
Example in poetry:
Aibell is invoked as the fairy queen of Thomond, whose music could drain life from those who heard it; Poets use Aibell to represent the dangerous beauty of the Otherworld and its fatal enchantments; In regional Irish poetry, Aibell appears as the banshee whose wailing foretells death in the O'Brien family; Aibell's association with Craglea gives poets a specific location to ground supernatural encounters in the Irish landscape; Modern verse employs Aibell as a symbol of feminine power that operates beyond mortal comprehension; The name Aibell evokes the perilous attraction of fairy music and the thin boundary between this world and the next
Additional Notes
Aibell, queen of the sídhe of Munster, is often associated with prophetic dreams and omens of death, particularly for the O’Brien dynasty; she is sometimes depicted playing a magical harp that foretells mortal fate; her presence in poetry can signal an intersection between the mortal and otherworldly realms, or serve as a muse of fatal knowledge; students may consider her as a counterpart to other sovereignty or fate figures like the Morrígan or Nemain; invoking Aibell allows poets to blend regional folklore with broader mythic motifs of destiny and feminine power.
Also Known As
Aibhil Aibleann Eibhlin Aeibhell Aoibheall
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