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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

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boxing

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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

Boxing is a combat sport in which two opponents fight with fists, usually gloved, according to rules.

Detailed Definition
Boxing enters poetry as a stark metaphor for the exchange of blows and the endurance of the round. In modern literature it symbolizes the brutal clarity of the ring. Poets use the jab and the knockdown to explore themes of the counted out, the corner, and the cultural weight of the prizefight as an image of individual courage and defeat.
Example
Example in poetry:
Boxing’s rounds and gloved fists appear in poems of measured endurance and sudden darkness; Modern verse places the ring at the center of individual courage and defeat; “He went down in the seventh and the count began” illustrates the formal limit of strength; Educational examples show the sport as the purest contest of will inside the ropes; Poets keep the image when the body itself becomes the final argument.
Additional Notes
Boxing’s rounds, gloves, and corners create a tightly bounded arena for the exploration of endurance, damage, and style. The sport’s formal limits—three-minute rounds, ten-point must system—supply poets with ready temporal and moral structures. Classroom discussion can examine how the gloved fist differs from the bare-knuckle or the armed combat. Related combat sports include wrestling and fencing. The image remains powerful because the body itself is both weapon and scorecard.
Also Known As
Art of the Glove Fist Combat The Sweet Science
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