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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 L

lippen

Archaic Terms
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

An old term meaning to trust or rely on, often used in a poetic context.

Detailed Definition
The word 'lippen' is an archaic term that means to trust or to rely upon. It is often found in older Scottish and English poetry, conveying a sense of faith or expectation. In this poem, it suggests a hopeful attitude towards the future, encouraging the reader to remain patient and trust in better days ahead. Its usage reflects the poem's themes of hope and resilience in the face of uncertainty.
Example
Example in poetry:
"But patient lippen for the best" (Scots for 'trust' or 'rely on'); "I lippen to his honest word" (faith); "Lippen not to false promises" (warning); "She lippens in her lover's truth" (romantic); "The people lippen in the king" (political)
Additional Notes
The word 'lippen' is used to convey the idea of trusting or relying on better outcomes, as seen in the line 'patient lippen for the best'.; Found in the poem, Horace, Ode XI. Lib. I by Robert Fergusson
Also Known As
trust Scottish rely lippen depend upon confide
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