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

Home › Glossary › Letter R

radharc

Dialect
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

The Irish word for a view, sight, or vision, used in poetry both for the physical act of seeing a landscape and for the imaginative or spiritual vision that perceives deeper realities beneath the visible world.

Detailed Definition
Radharc is among the most frequently used words in Irish for looking and seeing, covering everything from a scenic view to a theatrical scene to a moment of visionary apprehension. In landscape poetry it describes the panoramic sight of mountain, sea, and sky from an elevated position; in more contemplative verse it shades toward the visionary, the moment when physical sight deepens into spiritual perception. The ambiguity between external and internal vision is central to much Irish lyric poetry, and radharc captures this double movement — the eye drawn outward by beauty that then turns inward to meaning.
Example
Example in poetry:
The radharc offers panoramic view from elevated position; Poets climb to radharc to gain perspective on homeland below; The radharc reveals patterns invisible from ground level observation; The radharc inspires philosophical reflection on human smallness; Changing light at radharc transforms familiar landscape into something new; The radharc serves as metaphor for expanded consciousness or understanding.
Additional Notes
Radharc (view/sight) in Irish poetry refers to both physical vision and spiritual insight. Poets climb heights to gain radharc, symbolizing the quest for perspective and understanding. The radharc reveals the beauty and complexity of the landscape, inspiring reflection. It can also refer to a visionary experience, where hidden truths are revealed. Understanding radharc helps interpret the epiphanic moments in Irish verse, where seeing leads to knowing. It emphasizes the importance of observation and awareness.
Also Known As
view sight vision panorama perspective
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