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

Home › Glossary › Letter F

Fey Witch

Folklore
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

Want to hear it? Click the Listen button to hear the browser speak the word using text-to-speech!

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 witch of the Fey realm, blending fairy magic with human sorcery, often capricious, beautiful, and dangerous, bound by ancient laws.

Detailed Definition
Fey Witches in poetry represent the wild, untamed magic of the natural world—beautiful, indifferent, and lethal. They appear in Celtic and fantasy verse as reminders that magic is not benevolent, but ancient, and those who bargain with it pay in blood or soul.
Example
Example in poetry:
In Yeats’ “The Celtic Twilight,” the fey witch walks with the moon’s own voice: “She is not of this earth, but of the hill’s dream”; in Keats’ “Lamia,” the fey witch is the serpent-woman who sings in the grove; in Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan,” the damsel with a dulcimer is a fey witch of the sacred river; in William Morris’ “The Earthly Paradise,” the fey witch gives the hero a flower that sings; in Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market,” Laura’s hunger is a fey witch’s lure; in Anne Sexton’s “The Double Image,” the fey witch is the reflection that speaks before you do.
Additional Notes
Fey Witch blends fairy magic with human sorcery, capricious, beautiful, and dangerous, bound by ancient rules and seasonal cycles. Unlike European witches, she does not make pacts—she is of the land. In poetry, she embodies the wild, untamed feminine, the beauty that consumes, and the consequence of breaking taboos. Her magic is not evil but indifferent—ideal for poems on ecological imbalance, lost innocence, or the peril of romanticizing nature.
Also Known As
Fairy Witch Elven Witch
Skip to main content