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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.

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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Have a go

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

A British idiomatic phrase meaning to attempt or try something; conveys informal initiative in verse and suggests willingness to engage despite uncertainty, adding conversational tone and active agency to poetic diction.

Detailed Definition
Have a go means to try, attempt, attack, criticise, or take one’s turn, depending on context. In poetry, the idiom’s flexibility is useful: a character may have a go at writing, fighting, repairing, loving, or speaking truth. In British usage, it can also mean to challenge or scold someone, adding dramatic edge. The phrase often suggests ordinary courage rather than grand heroism. It invites poems about participation, effort, class voice, and the value of attempting even without mastery.
Example
Example in poetry:
A lively poem may invite the timid child to have a go at the fiddle; In a political ballad, the people have a go at speaking for themselves; The phrase can mean attempting something or challenging someone; A poet might use it to encourage brave experiment.
Additional Notes
Have a go means try, attempt, or in some contexts criticise or attack. In poetry, its meaning depends strongly on context. It can encourage experiment, mark working-class or British conversational voice, or describe someone verbally lashing out. Students should attend to tone and grammar: “have a go at painting” differs from “have a go at him.” The idiom is useful for risk, effort, and social confrontation.
Also Known As
try
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