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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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craftsman

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

Craftsman refers to a skilled worker or artisan, particularly one who creates art or objects by hand.

Detailed Definition
The term 'craftsman' denotes a person who is highly skilled in a particular craft, often associated with artistry and creation. In the context of this poem, it implies the need for a master artist to capture the divine beauty of the Angel's face. This word underscores the theme of artistry and the challenges inherent in representing the sublime.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Spenser’s “A greater craftsman’s hand thereto doth need,” craftsman suggests a maker whose skill approaches art or divine creation; In older verse, a “craftsman” may be an artisan, as in a smith, mason, carver, or weaver whose manual labour becomes a figure for poetic making; Compare William Morris’s medievalising poems, where the skilled maker stands against industrial mass production; A poet may call God the supreme craftsman, shaping “the life of things indeed”; In contemporary discussion, the term can describe a poet attentive to technique, form, revision, sound, and finish rather than merely inspiration
Additional Notes
The word 'craftsman' emphasizes the need for exceptional skill in art to depict the Angel's beauty accurately.; Found in the poem, The glorious portrait of that Angel's face by Edmund Spenser
Also Known As
artisan artificer
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