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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

course

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

Course is the route or distance over which a race or contest is run, or the progression of a game.

Detailed Definition
Course appears in poetry as a broad emblem of the path of the contest and the unfolding of the event. In literary contexts it represents the way that must be followed. Poets draw on the course to illustrate themes of the set distance, the obstacles along the way, and the cultural metaphor of the course that links the physical race to the journey of life and fortune.
Example
Example in poetry:
The course of a race or a life supplies poets with the image of the path that must be followed; Verse of the track or the journey uses the measured distance for effort and obstacle; “He ran the course as if the finish line were a form of grace” illustrates directed endurance; Educational poetry shows the term’s double life in sport and metaphor; Poets return to the course whenever the route and the cost of travel must both be felt.
Additional Notes
Course, as the measured path of a race or the progression of a game, supplies poets with a flexible image of directed effort through time and space. The word’s double life—literal track and metaphorical journey—makes it especially useful. Teachers can invite students to notice when the term shifts from the physical to the figurative. Related spaces include the track, the fairway, and the lists. The image rewards attention to the difference between the course as given and the course as run.
Also Known As
layer tack fairway
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