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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reck

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

To care about, heed, or take account of something; usually used negatively in phrases like "reck not" meaning to not care or be concerned.

Detailed Definition
"Reck" derives from Old English "reccan" (to care, heed), typically appearing in negative constructions—"reck not," "I reck not," "reckless" (literally, without care). The verb means to care about, heed, or regard something as important. Shakespeare and contemporaries used it when depicting indifference, carelessness, or deliberate disregard. Characters who recked not of danger, opinion, or consequence demonstrated either admirable courage or foolish disregard depending on context. The word's survival primarily in "reckless" maintained its core meaning while the verb itself became archaic. Poets employed "reck" when depicting attitudes of care or carelessness where modern "care" seemed too weak. Its archaic quality lent gravity to discussions of concern and indifference. The term's negative usage—people rarely reck, they reck not—made it particularly useful for depicting carelessness, bravery, or nihilism where absence of normal concern required expression.
Example
Example in poetry:
Reck not the danger, but press forward boldly!; "I reck not what others may say or think"; Reck means to care about or heed; The hero recked not his own safety; Reck often appears in negative constructions; Reckless derives from reck not
Additional Notes
Reck appears almost exclusively in negative constructions: "reck not," "nothing reck," "recks not." The term emphasizes careless disregard, often with implied criticism. Shakespeare employs it when characters fail to heed warnings or consequences. Related to "reckless" (without recking, heedless). Essential for analyzing heedlessness themes, warnings ignored, and characters' fatal flaws. The term suggests willful disregard rather than mere ignorance—to reck not is to actively not care about something one should heed. Useful for discussing tragic flaws, hubris, and how literature represents dangerous carelessness. The term's survival primarily in "reckless" shows how negative formations sometimes outlast positive forms. Its archaic quality makes it useful for elevated or deliberately old-fashioned warnings.
Also Known As
heed care regard notice
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