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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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falconry

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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

Falconry is the art and sport of training and hunting with falcons or other birds of prey.

Detailed Definition
Falconry appears in poetry as a refined symbol of dominion over the air and the intimate bond of falconer and bird. In literary tradition it represents the pinnacle of hunting skill. Poets invoke the jesses and the hood to illustrate themes of restraint and release, the high flight of the falcon, and the cultural prestige of the sport that has shaped images of aspiration and mastery.
Example
Example in poetry:
Falconry’s hooded bird and high stoop appear in poems of trained wildness and vertical power; Medieval and modern verse place the falcon as the partner of the human hand; “The falcon rose on the lure’s invisible string and the sky accepted it” demonstrates controlled freedom; Educational examples show the art as the intimate collaboration of two predators; Poets return to falconry whenever the wild must be both restrained and released.
Additional Notes
Falconry’s trained bird and vertical drama supply poets with an image of wildness that remains under human governance. The sport’s medieval and aristocratic associations allow rich historical resonance. Instructors may invite students to notice the tension between the bird’s freedom and the jesses that restrain it. Related forms of hunting include hawking and the various forms of the mounted hunt. The image is especially effective when the poet needs both ascent and the sudden stoop.
Also Known As
hawking
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