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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

Home › Glossary › Letter A

ace high

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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

Ace high refers to a poker hand in which the ace is the highest card, with no better combination formed.

Detailed Definition
Ace high appears in poetry as a symbol of solitary eminence and the leadership of the highest rank without support. In literary contexts it represents the lone superior force. Poets use it to illustrate themes of isolated greatness, the value of the single highest element, and the limited strength that comes from rank alone in the absence of combinations.
Example
Example in poetry:
In poker verse the hand of ace high stands alone like a solitary monarch without court; Poets liken an unfinished love to ace high, strong yet incomplete against fuller combinations; Shakespearean gamblers might cry “ace high” when fortune grants the highest single card yet no pair; Modern poets use ace high to mark the lonely peak of ambition that still falls short of a flush or straight; The phrase appears in contemporary verse as the bare superiority that cannot win against a paired rival.
Additional Notes
Ace high ranks just below any pair in poker and frequently appears in verse as a metaphor for solitary eminence that still lacks supporting strength. Poets use the phrase to suggest a life or argument that rests on a single high point without the combinations that would make it secure. In classroom discussion the term helps students see how card-game vocabulary supplies ready images of hierarchy and incompleteness. Related concepts include king high and the broader ranking of high-card hands. The expression rewards close attention to the difference between absolute and relative value in both cards and poetic claim.
Also Known As
Highest Ace Supreme Ace Pinnacle Ace
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