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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Fjalar

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 dwarf involved in the murder of Kvasir and the creation of the mead of poetry.

Detailed Definition
Fjalar, with his brother Galar, killed the wise being Kvasir and mixed his blood with honey to create the mead of poetry. He represents cunning and the dark origins of inspiration. In poetry, Fjalar’s act illustrates how wisdom arises from violence, a recurring theme in Norse myth where creation stems from sacrifice or treachery.
Example
Example in poetry:
Fjalar, the cunning dwarf who kills Kvasir and brews the mead of poetry; In Skáldskaparmál, his deceit births divine inspiration; Poets reference Fjalar to explore the dark origins of art; His name appears in kennings for poetry (“Fjalar’s liquid”); He embodies the paradox of wisdom born from violence; Modern verse uses him to question the ethics of creative theft.
Additional Notes
Fjalar, with his brother Galar, kills the wise being Kvasir and brews his blood into the mead of poetry; this act transforms knowledge into intoxicating inspiration, illustrating the Norse view that poetry arises from violence and sacrifice—poets may reflect on the ethical cost of creativity or the alchemy of turning wisdom into art.
Also Known As
Fjálar
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