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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

cue

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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

Cue is the long tapering stick used to strike the balls in billiards, pool, or snooker.

Detailed Definition
Cue appears in poetry as a precise emblem of the extended aim and the instrument of the touch. In modern literature it symbolizes the tool of the table. Poets invoke the cue to illustrate themes of the chalked tip, the bridged hand, and the cultural object that has linked the player's arm to the poetry of the angle and the consecutive shot.
Example
Example in poetry:
The cue’s long taper and chalked tip center poems of billiards, pool, and calculated touch; Verse of the table lets the stick speak the intention of the next contact; “He addressed the ball with the cue as if addressing a difficult truth” demonstrates precise approach; Educational poetry shows the implement as the extension of geometric thought; Poets return to the cue whenever the stroke must be both gentle and irreversible.
Additional Notes
The cue’s long taper and chalked tip become the instrument of calculated and almost surgical contact. Poets exploit both the cue’s extension of the arm and its capacity for the most delicate adjustment. Classroom discussion can usefully examine the difference between the power shot and the positional shot. Related implements include the rest and the various specialized cues. The image is effective when intention must travel the length of the stick before it becomes action.
Also Known As
Prompt Signal Indicator
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