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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.

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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lawn tennis

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 tennis is the outdoor version of tennis played on a grass or other surface court with rackets and a felt ball.

Detailed Definition
Lawn tennis appears in poetry as a symbol of modern athletic elegance and the back-and-forth of open-air contest. In verse it represents the refined physical exchange. Poets invoke the baseline and the net to illustrate themes of the outdoor volley, the scoring of games and sets, and the cultural shift from indoor court tennis to the democratic lawns of the modern game.
Example
Example in poetry:
Lawn tennis’s open court and flying felt supply modern poets with images of athletic exchange; Verse of the summer game lets the baseline and the net stage the back-and-forth of force; “The serve kicked and the lawn tennis of the day began in earnest” demonstrates initiated contest; Educational poetry shows the sport as the democratized descendant of court tennis; Poets use the game when elegance and power must share the same outdoor space.
Additional Notes
Lawn tennis’s open court and flying felt ball democratized the older game of court tennis and therefore carry connotations of both elegance and accessibility. Poets who choose the full name often wish to emphasize the outdoor setting and the modern form. Classroom discussion can usefully contrast lawn tennis with the indoor real tennis from which it descends. Related racket sports include badminton and the various forms of the net game. The image works well when the contest must feel both athletic and socially open.
Also Known As
tennis
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