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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bridge

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

Bridge is a sophisticated trick-taking card game evolving from whist, involving bidding and complex partnerships.

Detailed Definition
Bridge appears in poetry as a metaphor for intellectual collaboration and the high-level strategy of social or political alliances. In modern verse it symbolizes the bidding of strengths and the play of hands in concert. Poets invoke its conventions to illustrate the negotiation of power, the dummy hand of fate, and the precise execution required for victory in complex human games.
Example
Example in poetry:
Bridge’s bidding and dummy hand appear in poems of partnership and concealed strength; Modern verse lets the auction and the play stand for social or political alliance; “They bid the slam and the dummy came down like a revelation” illustrates revealed resources; Educational examples show the game as the highest development of whist; Poets use its conventions when cooperation and hidden cards must both be staged.
Additional Notes
Bridge’s bidding language and dummy play turn partnership into a formal and highly coded conversation. The game’s complexity rewards poets who need images of concealed information and cooperative inference. Teachers can use bridge to introduce the larger family of whist-derived games and their social histories. Related forms include whist and auction bridge. The image is especially effective when the poet needs both the silent partner and the revealed hand.
Other Meanings of “bridge”
Also Known As
Contract Bridge Partnership Bridge Team Bridge
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