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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baseball

Games
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

Baseball is a bat-and-ball team sport in which players hit a pitched ball and run bases to score runs.

Detailed Definition
Baseball appears in poetry as an American emblem of the diamond, the home run, and the pastoral contest within the city. In modern verse it symbolizes the national pastime. Poets invoke the diamond and the innings to illustrate themes of individual glory within the team, the arc of the fly ball, and the mythic dimensions of the game that have inspired countless poetic meditations.
Example
Example in poetry:
Baseball’s diamond and innings structure American poems of individual glory within the team; Verse of the summer game lets the home run or the strikeout carry larger meanings; “He rounded the bases as if circling his own life” demonstrates the circuit of success; Educational poetry shows the diamond as a mythic field of American experience; The game supplies poets with ready images of safe return or sudden out.
Additional Notes
Baseball’s diamond and progressive bases have given American poetry a durable map of advance, risk, and safe return. The game’s long season and statistical language allow poets to treat time itself as an extended at-bat or inning. Teachers can usefully contrast the individual drama of the batter with the collective movement of the team. Related games include rounders and softball. The diamond’s geometry invites spatial readings that link the field to larger narratives of home and exile.
Also Known As
America's Pastime The Diamond Game The Bat and Ball
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