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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 I

inis

Dialect
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

The Irish word for an island, a fundamental geographical and metaphorical unit in Irish poetry, associated with isolation, sanctity, otherworldly beauty, and the westward orientation of the Irish imagination.

Detailed Definition
Inis (plural oileáin or iníse) carries enormous weight in Irish cultural geography and literary tradition. Ireland itself is Inis Fáil (Island of Destiny) in poetic naming, and the tradition of island monasticism — Inis Mór, Inis Oírr, Skellig Michael — charged the word with spiritual significance. In imram literature the islands of the western sea are the sites of otherworld encounter. For modern poets from Yeats to Seamus Heaney, the island is a space of concentration and heightened meaning — cut off, exposed, and therefore intensely real. The word appears in hundreds of Irish placenames that poetry has made resonate far beyond their geographical meanings.
Example
Example in poetry:
The inis provides refuge for monks seeking spiritual solitude; Poets describe the inis as place where heaven and earth meet; The inis protects rare plants and animals from mainland disturbances; Ancient inis served as centers of learning and manuscript production; The isolation of inis intensifies both religious devotion and creative output; Modern visitors to inis seek escape from pressures of contemporary society.
Additional Notes
Inis (island) in Irish poetry is a place of isolation, spirituality, and preservation. Monastic islands were centers of learning and art, while remote islands offered refuge from persecution. Poets use inis imagery to explore solitude, contemplation, and separation from the mainstream. The island is bounded by sea, creating a defined space for introspection. It can be a paradise or a prison, depending on the context. Inis represents the tension between connection and independence in Irish identity.
Also Known As
island isle
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