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

Go

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

A strategy board game in which players place black or white stones to surround territory.

Detailed Definition
Go is an ancient East Asian board game played on a gridded board, usually with black and white stones. Players seek to enclose empty space and capture opposing groups by removing their liberties. In poetry, go can suggest patient conflict, widening silence, encirclement, or the sudden reversal produced by one small placement. Its sparse board offers a useful image of thought arranging itself through absence as much as through action.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Go” becomes a verb of departure in the line “Go, little hope, beyond the darkened hill”; A poet can echo the board game Go by writing, “I place one stone, then go, claiming silence”; The repeated command “Go, go” can create urgency, exile, or release; A poem may compare a lover’s departure to a player saying “Go,” turning one short word into an emotional pivot.
Additional Notes
Go is an ancient strategy game from China, played on a grid where stones are placed on intersections. Players surround empty territory and capture stones by removing their liberties. Its simple rules produce remarkable strategic depth; related ideas include influence, territory, life and death, and ko.
Also Known As
Weiqi Baduk Igo wend
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