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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

Home › Glossary › Letter C

catch

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

Catch is a basic game of throwing and catching a ball between players, emphasizing skill and timing.

Detailed Definition
Catch enters poetry as a metaphor for reception and the successful taking of what is offered or thrown. In verse it symbolizes the act of grasping opportunity. Poets use the throw and the catch to explore themes of trust between players, the arc of the ball as fortune's path, and the satisfaction of secure possession after the flight.
Example
Example in poetry:
Catch, the simple exchange of the thrown ball, appears in poems of trust and reception; Verse lets the successful grasp stand for the acceptance of what is offered; “He caught the day’s last light as if it were a ball” illustrates secure possession; Educational poetry shows the game as the elementary act of give and take; Poets return to catch whenever the arc of possibility must end in a safe hand.
Additional Notes
Catch, the elementary exchange of the thrown ball, becomes a figure for trust, timing, and the successful reception of what is offered. The game’s simplicity allows poets to strip the contest down to pure reciprocity. Classroom discussion can explore how the arc of the ball maps onto the arc of a gift or a risk. Related games include every form of throwing and catching. The term is especially effective when the poet needs an image of security after flight.
Also Known As
clasp
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