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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.

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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Saint Wilfrid

Saints
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

7th-century Northumbrian bishop and missionary who promoted Roman practices in England.

Detailed Definition
Saint Wilfrid's reforms and travels feature in Anglo-Saxon church unity and missionary expansion poetry, highlighting organizational vision.
Example
Example in poetry:
Saint Wilfrid is referenced in Anglo-Saxon ecclesiastical poetry as the Northumbrian bishop promoting Roman practices and missionary expansion in England.; Poets use his reformist zeal in verses exploring church unity and the tensions between Celtic and Roman traditions.; In hagiographic sequences, Saint Wilfrid symbolizes bold advocacy and the building of monasteries amid political intrigue.; A poet might invoke him in regional Northumbrian lyrics celebrating ecclesiastical architecture and conversion efforts.; His travels and disputes inspire narrative poetry on pilgrimage and doctrinal perseverance.; Medieval didactic verse draws on Saint Wilfrid to model episcopal courage in shaping English Christianity.
Additional Notes
Saint Wilfrid (c. 633-709/710), Northumbrian bishop and missionary, championed Roman liturgical practices over Celtic ones at the Synod of Whitby (664), founded monasteries like Ripon with Roman-style architecture and chant, and undertook multiple appeals to Rome amid conflicts with kings and rival bishops. His colorful life, detailed in Eddius Stephanus's biography, highlights tensions between insular and continental Christianity. In Anglo-Saxon or ecclesiastical poetry, he represents reform, pilgrimage, and unification. Usage tip: use for verses on synodal debate, Romanitas in Britain, or monastic foundations, exploring cultural clashes through dramatic monologues; related to figures like Bede, Cuthbert, or Oswiu, he enriches early English church history poetry, helping students analyze how saints embody ecclesiastical politics and the transmission of continental learning in insular literary traditions.
Also Known As
Wilfrid of York Wilfrid of Ripon St. Wilfrid
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