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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

Home › Glossary › Letter E

Eriu

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

Ériu is one of the three sovereignty goddesses of Ireland, from whom the country takes its name.

Detailed Definition
Alongside Banba and Fódla, Ériu offered her name to the Milesians in exchange for honor. She symbolizes national identity and divine connection to the land. In poetry, Ériu often appears as a personification of Ireland itself, embodying pride, beauty, and resilience.
Example
Example in poetry:
Ériu appears as the sovereignty goddess who gave her name to Ireland in poetic tradition; Poets invoke Ériu as the embodiment of the land itself, the genius loci of Ireland; Her encounter with the Milesians, granting them the island if they named it for her, provides material for foundation poetry; Ériu alongside Banba and Fódla represents the threefold nature of Irish sovereignty; In nationalist and patriotic verse, Ériu personifies Ireland as feminine divinity; Modern poets use Ériu when exploring the relationship between people, land, and identity
Additional Notes
Ériu, eponymous goddess of Ireland (“Éire”), greets the Milesians with dignity and receives their promise that her name will endure; she represents the land’s spirit, resilience, and poetic identity; alongside Banba and Fódla, she forms a trinity that personifies Ireland’s sacred geography; poets frequently invoke Ériu as a muse or national symbol—Yeats calls her “the red-rose-bordered hem of her gown”; her story teaches that true sovereignty requires mutual recognition between people and land.
Also Known As
Ériu Éire Eri Erin (poetic form)
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