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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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chearful

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

Chearful means being in a state of happiness or joyfulness, often used in older texts.

Detailed Definition
The term 'chearful' is an archaic spelling of 'cheerful,' reflecting a state of happiness or joy. In the context of the poem, it describes the moments that have flown by with a sense of positivity and delight, emphasizing the speaker's emotional state in relation to Delia. This word captures the essence of joy that permeates the speaker's feelings as they reflect on their love and care.
Example
Example in poetry:
Since with my love for thee, my care begun To form thy tender mind to virtue prone: The flatteries of my sex I bade thee shun, I bade thee shun the follies of thy own; Fictitious manners by example won, Alike to truth and innocence unknown: Say, blooming Maiden, in whose gentle breast Reigns simple Nature undisguis'd by Art, Now amply try'd by time's unerring test, How just the dictates of this faithful heart, That with the joys thy favouring smiles impart, Deems all its cares repair'd, itself supremely blest.
Additional Notes
The word 'chearful' appears in the line describing the joyful moments that have passed, highlighting the speaker's positive emotions.; Found in the poem, To Delia by John Scott
Also Known As
cheerful variant merry glad chearful joyous
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