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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bat

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

Bat is the wooden or metal implement used to strike the ball in games such as cricket, baseball, or rounders.

Detailed Definition
Bat enters poetry as a solid emblem of the striking force and the tool of the hit. In literary tradition it represents the extension of the player's power. Poets use the bat to explore themes of the sweet spot, the swung timber, and the cultural object that has framed the poetry of the innings and the diamond.
Example
Example in poetry:
The bat’s swing and solid contact center poems of cricket, baseball, and rounders; Verse lets the timber or metal speak the force of the hit; “The bat met the ball and the field rearranged itself” demonstrates decisive action; Educational lines show the bat as the extension of the player’s will; Poets return to the implement whenever the moment of striking must be felt.
Additional Notes
The bat, whether willow or ash or aluminum, is the instrument that converts intention into contact. Poets exploit both its solidity and its capacity to fail—missed swings, broken handles, mistimed strokes. Classroom discussion can separate the technical vocabulary of the blade or barrel from the symbolic weight the implement acquires in cricket or baseball verse. Related tools include the racket and the stick. The bat remains effective because it is both an extension of the body and an object that can betray the body.
Other Meanings of “bat”
Also Known As
Racket Paddle Striker
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