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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

Home › Glossary › Letter O

Orléans

Battles
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

Refers to the 1429 siege lifted by Joan of Arc, a turning point in the Hundred Years’ War.

Detailed Definition
Orléans marked the resurgence of French morale under Joan’s inspiration. In poetry, it symbolizes divine intervention, female heroism, and national redemption—frequently appearing in French and global verse as a moment when faith and courage reversed despair, shaping legends of martyrdom, purity, and the soul of a nation reborn in fire.
Example
Example in poetry:
Orléans, lifted by Joan of Arc in 1429, appears in French patriotic poetry as divine intervention; A modern sonnet might frame Orléans’ siege as the birth of national myth; In a dramatic lyric, Joan hears voices above Orléans’ ramparts; A free-verse elegy could mourn the civilians who endured Orléans’ hunger; Contemporary poets use Orléans to explore gender and sanctity in war; A haiku might capture lilies blooming where Joan raised her standard at Orléans.
Additional Notes
The lifting of the Siege of Orléans (1429) by Joan of Arc marked a spiritual and military turning point in the Hundred Years’ War; in French and global poetic tradition, it embodies divine intervention, female agency, and the fusion of faith with national destiny—frequently evoked in Romantic and nationalist verse.
Also Known As
Siege of Orléans Battle of Orléans
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