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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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card table

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

Card table is a specialized table for playing card games, often with a baize surface and folding legs.

Detailed Definition
Card table enters poetry as an intimate emblem of the dealt hand and the circle of players. In verse it symbolizes the domestic or social arena of the pack. Poets use the card table to explore themes of the shuffled deck, the revealed cards, and the cultural furniture of play that has framed the dramas of bluff and fortune in literature.
Example
Example in poetry:
The card table’s baize and silent circle frame poems of dealt destiny and social risk; Verse of the parlor or the casino places the players around the green rectangle; “The cards left the table like birds leaving a wire” demonstrates the moment of commitment; Educational lines show the furniture as the altar of chance and skill; Poets return to the card table when private fortunes are decided in public view.
Additional Notes
The card table’s baize surface and folding legs create a portable and intimate arena for the dramas of chance and skill. Poets exploit both the table’s domestic presence and its capacity to hold large fortunes. Teachers may invite students to notice how the green cloth becomes a small stage. Related furniture includes the dice table and the billiard table. The image rewards attention to the difference between the private parlor and the public casino.
Also Known As
Card Game Surface Gaming Deck Play Table Strategy Surface
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