A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

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

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Phantom Knight

Arthurian Legend
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

A spectral warrior appearing in dreams or battle, often foretelling doom or testing a knight’s resolve.

Detailed Definition
The Phantom Knight embodies ancestral memory or divine warning. In poetry, he symbolizes the inescapable past, the presence of fate, and the psychological burdens that haunt even the bravest heroes.
Example
Example in poetry:
Phantom Knight, a spectral warrior in Arthurian lore, appears in poetry as a symbol of unresolved past—e.g., “The Phantom Knight rides not for vengeance, but for witness—someone to say, ‘I see you’”; Poets use it to explore historical haunting: “He wears the armor of a cause no one remembers, but the land does”; In Gothic verse, it embodies cyclical violence: “Each generation conjures its own Phantom Knight from old wounds”; Its name evokes spectral duty in eerie lyrics; Modern poetry uses it to examine how trauma echoes through time.
Additional Notes
Phantom Knight is a spectral warrior appearing in dreams or battle—often foretelling doom or testing resolve. Poets use him to explore ancestral memory, guilt, and the haunting of the present by the past. For students, he embodies the legend’s Gothic strain: where history returns as ghost, making him valuable for analyses of trauma, prophecy, and the psychological dimensions of chivalric honor in both medieval and modern verse.
Also Known As
Spectral Knight Wraith Knight Apparition of Battle
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