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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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Coping

Architecture
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

Coping is the protective capstone or covering placed atop a wall. Poetically, it can suggest endurance, restraint, or a final protective gesture.

Detailed Definition
Coping seals the exposed top of a wall against rain and weather, preserving the structure below. A poet may use it as an image of the habits by which people protect themselves: silence over anger, ritual over grief, or wit over fear. Because it is a finishing layer exposed to the elements, coping can also evoke the thin but necessary defenses that let an old structure remain standing.
Example
Example in poetry:
The coping, the protective cap along the top of a wall, is slick with rain in the poem’s landscape; “Pigeons balanced on the coping of the churchyard wall” gives a precise architectural perch; A poet may use broken coping to show how weather gradually defeats even stone boundaries; In a metaphorical line, “Patience was the coping above the flood” suggests a protective edge holding disaster back
Additional Notes
Coping is the protective top layer of a wall, designed to shed rain and prevent water from damaging the masonry beneath. The term can therefore imply practical resilience rather than grand ornament. In a poem, coping may become a final covering over injury, a disciplined emotional boundary, or a gesture that keeps weather from entering. Related concepts include capstone, parapet, wall, and shelter.
Other Meanings of “Coping”
Also Known As
Capping Coping Stone
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