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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court

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

Court is the marked area for games such as tennis or basketball, or the enclosed space of play.

Detailed Definition
Court enters poetry as a bounded emblem of the formal contest and the lines that define the play. In literary contexts it represents the arena of skill. Poets use the court to explore themes of the baseline and the net, the service, and the cultural image of the court that has framed the poetry of the racket and the royal or public game.
Example
Example in poetry:
The court of tennis or of law supplies poets with the bounded space of formal contest; Verse of the racket game uses the marked lines for the limits of exchange; “They played the court until the boundaries themselves seemed to move” illustrates contested space; Educational lines show the double meaning that links sport and judgment; Poets keep the court when every action must occur inside an agreed and visible frame.
Additional Notes
Court, as the marked area of play, creates a bounded and formal space that poets can treat as both literal ground and social enclosure. The word’s additional legal and royal meanings allow rich ambiguity. Instructors should alert students to the context that activates one or another sense. Related spaces include the field, the pitch, and the lists. The image is especially effective when the rules of the game and the rules of the society must be shown as continuous.
Also Known As
Playing Field Sports Ground Court of Play Courtyard
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