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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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euchre

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

Euchre is a trick-taking card game popular in North America, involving a shortened deck and the naming of trumps.

Detailed Definition
Euchre appears in poetry as a lively regional pastime symbolizing partnership and the bold declaration of strength. In folk and modern verse it represents the communal contests of the frontier or parlor. Poets use its bows and trumps to explore themes of local loyalty, the risk of being euchred, and the triumph of coordinated play.
Example
Example in poetry:
Euchre’s shortened deck and bold trump appear in poems of regional and partnership play; North American verse lets the game stand for local loyalty and calculated risk; “They ordered it up and the euchre of the evening began” demonstrates decisive declaration; Educational examples show the sport as the lively cousin of larger trick-taking games; Poets use euchre when the contest must feel both communal and sharply competitive.
Additional Notes
Euchre’s shortened deck and bold trump-making create a lively and regional form of partnership play. The game’s North American associations allow poets to evoke local loyalty and calculated risk without the full complexity of bridge. Teachers can use euchre to introduce the larger family of trump-taking games and their migration. Related forms include the European euchre ancestors and the general language of the trump. The image works well when the contest must feel both communal and sharply competitive.
Also Known As
Card Game Trick-Taking Game Trickster's Game
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