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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requite

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 repay, recompense, or return in kind, whether good or evil; to reciprocate love, kindness, injury, or harm; to give back what is due or deserved.

Detailed Definition
“Requite” implies moral balance—love requited, wrongs requited. In amorous poetry, it frames reciprocity’s hope or pain. The term’s weight suits ethical reflection. Poets use it to explore justice in relationships, where requital fulfills or betrays, reinforcing themes of fairness, desire, and cosmic order in lyrical and dramatic contexts.
Example
Example in poetry:
“How shall I requite thy boundless grace?” asks the grateful lover; In Shakespeare’s Sonnet 101: “Truth needs no color, with his color fixed; / Beauty no pencil, beauty’s truth to lay; / But best is best, if never intermixed? / Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb? / Excuse not silence so, for’t lies in thee / To make him much outlive a gilded tomb... / And so they love, being loved, requite again”; “Virtue requites not with gold, but with peace”; “He sought to requite betrayal with mercy”; “Love that is true requites itself”; She could not requite his passion, though she honored it.
Additional Notes
“Requite” implies exact reciprocity—love for love, harm for harm—and appears frequently in sonnets and revenge tragedies; its moral weight distinguishes it from neutral “repay,” embedding justice or poetic balance in emotional exchange.
Also Known As
repay reciprocate recompense
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