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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.

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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Tom Thumb

Arthurian Legend
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

Tiny hero from folklore, occasionally linked to Arthur’s court

Detailed Definition
Appears in chapbooks as Arthur’s page. In poetry, he embodies the triumph of wit over size—his miniature stature a metaphor for the idea that greatness comes in unexpected forms, adding whimsy to the chivalric world.
Example
Example in poetry:
Though Tom Thumb predates and exists outside core Arthurian cycles, some Renaissance chapbooks link him to Arthur’s court as a tiny knight or jester; Poets occasionally juxtapose Tom Thumb’s miniature heroism with Arthurian grandeur to explore scale and significance; In satirical verse, Tom Thumb at Camelot critiques the pomposity of chivalric ideals through absurd contrast; Modern children’s poetry sometimes places Tom Thumb in Arthurian settings to introduce young readers to mythic themes; While not authentically Arthurian, Tom Thumb’s inclusion in later compilations shows how folklore absorbed and reinterpreted legendary frameworks; Poets use Tom Thumb as a metaphor for the overlooked voice—small yet pivotal in the machinery of legend.
Additional Notes
Tom Thumb, while a separate English folk hero, was occasionally linked to Arthurian courts in 17th-century chapbooks as a tiny knight or page; this is not medieval but reflects the absorptive nature of later Arthuriana—poets may reference this playfully, but should distinguish authentic legend from early modern whimsy.
Also Known As
Thumbling Little Tom
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