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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

Lir

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

Sea god and father of the Children of Lir, whose offspring were cursed into swan form

Detailed Definition
Lir’s grief over his children’s transformation made him a symbol of paternal sorrow. His story is central to Irish bardic lament. Poets invoke Lir to express the pain of separation, the endurance of love through time, and the sea as both prison and cradle of memory.
Example
Example in poetry:
Lir is a sea god and father of the Children of Lir; His grief over his children’s transformation defines his mythic role; Poets reference Lir to explore paternal sorrow and the passage of time; His name is linked to the sea (Irish “ler” = sea), grounding him in elemental forces; In “The Fate of the Children of Lir,” Lir’s lament is a pillar of Irish elegiac poetry; He embodies the enduring pain of loss and the hope of reunion.
Additional Notes
Lir is a sea god and father of the Children of Lir. His grief over his children’s 900-year swan transformation defines his mythic role. Students should study Lir as an embodiment of paternal sorrow and the passage of time. His name is linguistically linked to the sea (“ler”), grounding him in elemental forces. Poets reference Lir in elegies to explore loss, endurance, and the hope of reunion—making him central to Irish lament tradition and national metaphors of exile and return.
Also Known As
Lir of the Sea Father of the Swans The Grieving Patriarch Lord of the Waves
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