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.

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 The Whole Hog

Idiomatic Phrase
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

To commit completely to a course of action, investing all available effort or resources without hesitation, reserve, or partial measures.

Detailed Definition
The phrase means pursuing something to its fullest extent, with origins associated with taking an entire animal rather than a portion. In verse, it can celebrate extravagant love, reckless invention, or total artistic commitment. Against a cautious world, the speaker who goes the whole hog may burn every bridge, spend every coin, and make one dazzling gesture that cannot be withdrawn.
Example
Example in poetry:
For the final stanza, the poet goes the whole hog, filling the page with bells, thunder, and fire; The festival goes the whole hog with banners, drums, and lanterns until dawn; Rather than hint at grief, the speaker goes the whole hog and names every wound; In a comic poem, the king goes the whole hog and orders a golden statue of his cat.
Additional Notes
“Go the whole hog” means to commit completely, without choosing a partial or cautious option. It is often used for celebrations, purchases, or ambitious plans. Similar phrases include “go all out,” “pull out all the stops,” and “go the whole nine yards.”
Also Known As
Go Whole Hog Go The Whole Nine Yards
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