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

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hunting

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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

Hunting is the pursuit and killing of wild animals for sport, food, or both, often with hounds or weapons.

Detailed Definition
Hunting enters poetry as a primal metaphor for the chase of desire, the contest with nature, and the rituals of the kill. In verse from the earliest epics to modern times it symbolizes the human place in the wild. Poets use the hunt to explore themes of the quarry and the hunter, the blooding of the novice, and the moral and aesthetic dimensions of the pursuit across the landscape.
Example
Example in poetry:
Hunting’s long pursuit and final quarry supply poets with the oldest metaphor of desire and death; From medieval allegory to modern lyric the chase stages the relationship of hunter and hunted; “They hunted the day until the light itself went to ground” illustrates exhaustive seeking; Educational examples present the activity as both necessity and ritual; Poets return to hunting whenever the object of longing must also be the object of loss.
Additional Notes
Hunting, in its broadest sense, remains poetry’s oldest and most flexible emblem of pursuit, desire, and the relationship between hunter and quarry. The activity’s dual status as necessity and sport allows rich moral ambiguity. Instructors can usefully distinguish the different registers of the bow hunt, the mounted hunt, and the modern gun. Related specific forms include fox hunting, stag hunting, and boar hunting. The image is inexhaustible because every quarry can become a figure and every chase a moral journey.
Also Known As
The Chase Game Pursuit The Hunter's Quest
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