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 L

lawn

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

Lawn is the mown grass area used for outdoor games such as tennis, croquet, or bowls.

Detailed Definition
Lawn enters poetry as a domestic emblem of the home ground of play and the social surface of the garden. In literary contexts it represents the accessible field. Poets use the lawn to explore themes of the striped grass, the afternoon game, and the cultural image of the lawn that has framed the poetry of leisure and the polite competition.
Example
Example in poetry:
The lawn of croquet or of tennis appears as the domestic and social ground of play; Verse of the garden uses the mown grass for the polite yet competitive afternoon; “They played across the lawn until the shadows lengthened into rules” illustrates measured leisure; Educational examples present the surface as the cultivated opposite of the open field; Poets keep the lawn when the contest must still observe the manners of the house.
Additional Notes
The lawn, as the mown and ordered grass of domestic play, supplies poets with a surface of controlled nature and social ease. The careful boundary between lawn and wilderness can itself become a poetic resource. Instructors may invite students to notice how the lawn supports both the polite games of croquet or bowls and the deeper dramas that unfold upon it. Related surfaces include the green and the general language of the garden. The image rewards attention to the difference between the wild field and the tended ground.
Also Known As
sward
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