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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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jousting

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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

Jousting is the medieval sport of mounted combat with lances between two knights, often in tournament.

Detailed Definition
Jousting enters poetry as the ultimate emblem of chivalric contest and the clash of armored equals. In literary tradition it symbolizes the formal combat of honor. Poets use the lists and the broken lance to explore themes of the lady's favor, the fall from the saddle, and the mythic dimensions of the joust that have defined the poetry of knighthood and romance.
Example
Example in poetry:
Jousting’s leveled lances and broken wood appear in poems of chivalric trial and public honor; Medieval and romantic verse stage the formal meeting of two mounted equals; “They met in the lists and the lances flowered into splinters” illustrates spectacular impact; Educational examples present the sport as the ritualized form of cavalry combat; Poets return to the joust whenever personal worth must be proven in a single charge.
Additional Notes
Jousting’s leveled lances and shattered wood create the central spectacle of chivalric trial and public honor. The formal charge along the barrier supplies poets with a ready drama of approach, impact, and the possibility of the fall. Instructors may explore the relationship between the single joust and the larger tournament. Related forms include the tilt and the passage of arms. The image remains powerful because the entire social world is temporarily narrowed to two horses and two points.
Also Known As
tilt tilting joust
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