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

Home › Glossary › Letter G

gaming table

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

Gaming table is a table designed or used for the playing of games, especially cards or dice.

Detailed Definition
Gaming table appears in poetry as a social emblem of the focused surface of chance and skill. In literary contexts it represents the gathering place of players. Poets draw on the gaming table to illustrate themes of the green cloth, the scattered cards or dice, and the cultural space where fortunes are made and lost in the poetry of the night and the salon.
Example
Example in poetry:
The gaming table’s green cloth gathers the night’s risk into one focused surface; Verse of the casino or parlor places every wager upon its silent rectangle; “The gaming table waited like an altar that preferred coins to prayers” demonstrates concentrated chance; Educational poetry shows the furniture as the necessary ground of play; Poets return to the table whenever private fortunes are decided in public view.
Additional Notes
The gaming table, whether for cards or dice, becomes a concentrated stage on which private fortunes are decided in public view. Poets exploit both the table’s green or baize surface and the way it gathers light, eyes, and stakes. Teachers may invite students to notice the difference between the domestic card table and the institutional casino table. Related furniture includes the dice table and the billiard table. The image is especially effective when the poet needs a small, brightly lit arena of risk.
Also Known As
Recreational Table Play Surface Game Board Leisure Table
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