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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sprite

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

A spirit, fairy, elf, or supernatural being of diminutive size; a ghost or apparition; also the soul or animating essence that gives life and energy.

Detailed Definition
“Sprite” blends folklore and metaphysics, denoting airy spirits (like Ariel in “The Tempest”) or the vital spark of life. It appears in Romantic and Elizabethan poetry to evoke magic, imagination, or immaterial beauty. Its lightness contrasts with corporeal imagery, making it ideal for ethereal or allegorical figures. Though “spirit” replaced it in many contexts, “sprite” retains a whimsical, otherworldly charm in verse exploring the unseen or the sublime.
Example
Example in poetry:
The sprite danced in the moonlit glade (fairy, elf, spirit); A mischievous sprite played tricks on travelers (supernatural being, imp); The water sprite rose from the stream (fairy, nymph); Like a sprite she vanished in the mist (fairy, nimble being); The woodland sprites sang in the trees (elves, fairies); A sprite of fire flickered in the darkness (spirit, fairy creature)
Additional Notes
Sprite denotes a spirit, fairy, or supernatural being—typically small, mischievous, or magical. Shakespeare's Ariel (The Tempest) is a sprite. In folklore, sprites inhabit natural spaces (water sprites, wood sprites). Students should recognize sprite's associations with playfulness, magic, and nature. The term can also mean soul or animating essence: "spirit" and "sprite" share etymology. In medieval and Renaissance literature, sprites occupy ambiguous moral space—not clearly good or evil. Spenser uses sprites for various supernatural beings. In Romantic poetry, sprites embody natural forces or imaginative visions. Modern usage includes "sprite" for computer graphics characters (from the supernatural sense of insubstantial, animated beings). Compare "fairy" (specifically fey folk), "spirit" (broader, more serious), and "sprite" (lighter, more playful). Understanding sprite helps interpret supernatural elements in literature.
Also Known As
spright spirite spirit imp sióg faery puck faëry
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