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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Falhofnir

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

A horse listed among the steeds of the gods, though details of its role are sparse.

Detailed Definition
Falhofnir appears in Grímnismál as one of the mounts of the Æsir, reflecting the importance of horses in divine cosmology. In poetry, such horses symbolize speed, nobility, and transcendence, often serving as metaphors for spiritual or cosmic journeys.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem might list divine steeds: “Falhofnir, swift as regret, carried Freyja’s sighs to Jötunheim”; In equestrian imagery: “Falhofnir’s hooves barely kiss earth—more spirit than horse”; A lyric could evoke, “Ride Falhofnir through mist, where borders blur and gods grow mortal”; Modern metaphor: “My thoughts are Falhofnir—they gallop beyond fences of reason”.
Additional Notes
Falhofnir appears in Grímnismál 30 among lists of divine horses, but with no narrative role. His name may mean “pale/fallow hoof” or “hoof that throws sand.” Such cataloged names reflect the Norse poetic tradition of heiti (poetic synonyms) and the cultural importance of horses as psychopomps and status symbols. In verse, Falhofnir offers alliterative potential and symbolic resonance—e.g., as a steed for journeys between worlds, or a metaphor for elusive, ghostly movement. Poets may invent roles for him, drawing on his mysterious name.
Also Known As
Falhöfnir
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