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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.

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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Blow the whistle

Idiomatic Phrase
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

Blow the whistle: to expose wrongdoing or report misconduct publicly; the sporting referee image lends authority to the act of interruption, used in civic and protest poetry.

Detailed Definition
Blow the whistle means to expose wrongdoing, danger, corruption, or hidden abuse, especially from within an organisation or group. In poetry, the idiom can dramatise moral courage: a speaker breaks silence, risks loyalty, and turns private knowledge into public accusation. It is useful in justice-themed poems because it raises questions about conscience, betrayal, witness, and accountability. A poet may use it to show truth as a sharp sound that interrupts secrecy and forces others to listen.
Example
Example in poetry:
A narrative poem might praise the clerk who dared to blow the whistle on corruption; In political verse, blow the whistle can mark the moment private truth becomes public; The phrase suits poems about conscience, danger, and exposure; A poet could use it with an actual whistle image to link sound and revelation.
Additional Notes
To blow the whistle means to expose misconduct, from the whistle used by referees, police, or officials to stop wrongdoing. In poetry it can dramatise conscience, risk, public truth, and the loneliness of speaking out. The sound image is sharp and interruptive: a whistle cuts through silence. It pairs well with themes of corruption, complicity, surveillance, and moral courage.
Also Known As
Blow the whistle on report wrongdoing
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