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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yare

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

Quick, agile, or nimble; ready and prepared; also skillfully handled, especially regarding ships; brisk and efficient in movement or action.

Detailed Definition
"Yare" derives from Old English "gearu" (ready, prepared), meaning quick, agile, nimble, or ready, particularly in nautical contexts where "yare" described ships handled skillfully or crews working efficiently. Shakespeare used it when depicting readiness, agility, or nautical competence. The term appears in maritime poetry for ship handling and more broadly for any quick, efficient action or readiness. Its nautical associations made it particularly appropriate for seafaring contexts where quick response and skilled handling mattered. Poets valued its compact expression of both readiness and nimbleness—to be yare meant both prepared and capable of quick movement. The word's archaic quality suited elevated or technical contexts requiring vocabulary beyond simple "ready" or "quick." Its use suggested competence and efficiency, making it appropriate for celebrating skill, preparation, and responsive capability. The term exemplifies how nautical vocabulary enriched general language, offering precise terms for readiness and skill that carried additional technical and professional associations.
Example
Example in poetry:
Ready, prepared, nimble, or quick; "Be yare in thy preparation" means be quick and ready; Shakespeare's Tempest uses yare for a ship ready to sail; The sailors were yare and efficient in their duties; Hardy employs yare for rural workers quick at their tasks; The hawk was yare to strike at any moment; With yare hands she caught the falling child
Additional Notes
“Yare” means quick, ready, or nimble—especially applied to ships responsive to the helm. Shakespeare used it famously in The Tempest: “Yare, yare! Take in the topsail!” In poetry, it conveys agility, preparedness, or brisk efficiency, adding a vivid sense of motion and alertness to nautical or action scenes.
Also Known As
ready prepared quick brisk
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