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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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Barnet

Battles
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 1471 Yorkist victory in the Wars of the Roses, where Edward IV defeated and killed the Earl of Warwick.

Detailed Definition
Barnet ended Lancastrian hopes and solidified Yorkist rule. In poetry, it appears as a moment of dynastic rupture and personal tragedy—often invoked in historical verse to explore loyalty, betrayal, and the bloody cost of England’s civil wars, especially in works influenced by Shakespearean drama.
Example
Example in poetry:
Barnet, where Edward IV defeated Warwick in 1471, appears in Shakespeare’s “Henry VI” as fratricidal chaos; A modern sonnet might frame Barnet’s fog as metaphor for dynastic confusion; In a dramatic monologue, Warwick laments his fall at Barnet’s hedgerows; A free-verse elegy could mourn the end of chivalric ideals at Barnet; Contemporary poets use Barnet to explore loyalty’s cost in civil war; A haiku might capture ravens circling over Barnet’s battlefield.
Additional Notes
The Battle of Barnet (1471) ended the career of the “Kingmaker” Warwick and solidified Edward IV’s reign; in Wars of the Roses poetry and drama, it underscores themes of loyalty, betrayal, and the volatility of dynastic power in late medieval England.
Also Known As
Battle of Barnet
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