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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broodeth

Archaic Terms
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

An archaic form of the verb 'brood', meaning to think deeply or worry about something.

Detailed Definition
'Broodeth' is an old-fashioned form of the verb 'brood', which means to sit on eggs to hatch them or to think deeply about something, often with a sense of worry or sadness. In the poem, the use of 'broodeth' conveys a sense of introspection and emotional depth, reflecting the character's contemplative state as she experiences her surroundings. The word's archaic nature may cause readers to pause, as it is not commonly used in modern English.
Example
Example in poetry:
“She broodeth when the ringdove broods” uses the archaic -eth ending to echo biblical and older lyric diction; Genesis 1:2 says the Spirit “moved upon the face of the waters,” often rendered as brooding over them; “The storm broodeth above the town” personifies weather with ominous patience; A modern poem may use “broods” instead for a plainer contemporary register
Additional Notes
The word 'broodeth' is unfamiliar because it is an archaic form of a common verb, making it likely that readers will need to look it up to understand its meaning.; Found in the poem, Agatha by Alfred Austin
Also Known As
Broods Contemplates Ponders
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