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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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Leontes

Historical Figure
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

Fictional king in Shakespeare’s "The Winter’s Tale," consumed by jealousy

Detailed Definition
Though literary, Leontes functions as an archetype of irrational suspicion and redemption. Poets reference him to explore the destructiveness of envy, the possibility of grace after ruin, and the theatricality of remorse.
Example
Example in poetry:
Leontes, jealous king in “Winter’s Tale,” destroys his world with suspicion’s veil; Poets use his arc to explore how rage distorts love’s fragile stage; His sixteen-year penance, statue scene, show time’s redemptive sheen; In psychological verse, Leontes stands for trust betrayed by inner hands; Shakespeare’s late romance gives poets hope—grace after the storm’s cope; His name evokes the cost when doubt poisons love’s honest route.
Additional Notes
Leontes is the jealous king in Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,” whose paranoia destroys his family before miraculous redemption; though fictional, he functions as a historical archetype of tyrannical suspicion; in poetry, Leontes symbolizes irrational jealousy, the collapse of reason, or the possibility of grace after ruin—useful for analyzing psychological verse on trust, time, and restoration.
Also Known As
Leontes (fictional character from The Winter’s Tale; no historical aliases)
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