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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repair

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

An archaic verb meaning to go or return to a place, often used in poetic contexts to imply a deliberate or emotional return, especially after absence or hardship.

Detailed Definition
In older English poetry and prose, “repair” functioned as a verb meaning to go or return to a place, carrying connotations of purposeful movement, often imbued with emotional weight—such as returning to a loved one, a sacred site, or a place of memory. It appears frequently in Renaissance and Early Modern literature, notably in Shakespeare and Spenser, where its formal tone elevates the action beyond mere physical motion into an act of devotion, longing, or renewal. Unlike the modern sense of “to fix,” this usage emphasized movement toward a destination with intentionality, making it ideal for lyrical expression of homecoming, spiritual pilgrimage, or psychological return. Its decline in common usage lends it an antique resonance, allowing poets to evoke historical atmosphere, solemnity, or classical allusion, particularly in sonnets and narrative verse where diction shapes tone and thematic depth.
Example
Example in poetry:
And now, fair queen, I repair to thy bower, where love doth wait in silent grace; |The weary knight, with heart unbroken, repair’d unto the chapel where his vows were made; |When dusk doth fall, the lover repaireth to the hill where first her voice he heard; |In Spenser’s Faerie Queene, the knight doth repair to the castle of Alma, seeking solace after battle; |No more shall I repair to those fields where summer’s bloom once kissed my feet; |She repair’d to the sea’s edge, as once her mother did, to whisper names to the tide
Additional Notes
The archaic verb “repair” (not to be confused with its modern sense of fixing or mending) derives from Middle French “reparer” and Latin “reparare,” meaning to return or go back. In Early Modern English poetry—especially in the works of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, and John Milton—it frequently appears in constructions like “repair to [a place]” to denote a purposeful, often solemn or romantic journey. For instance, in Book II of The Faerie Queene, knights “repair” to castles or sacred sites as part of their moral or spiritual quests. This usage conveys not just physical motion but emotional or symbolic intention, making it a powerful poetic device for expressing longing, duty, or pilgrimage. Students should note that “repair” in this sense is always intransitive and requires a prepositional phrase (“to the grove,” “unto the palace”) to complete its meaning. Related archaic terms include “hie” (to hasten) and “wend” (to go), which similarly denote movement with literary weight. Recognizing this archaic usage prevents misinterpretation when encountering phrases like “he repaired thither at dawn,” which modern readers might mistakenly associate with restoration rather than travel.
Also Known As
repaire repaireth repairth mend
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