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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.

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

Leverage

Economics
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

The use of borrowed funds or strategic advantage to increase potential returns. It can symbolize amplified power and heightened risk.

Detailed Definition
Leverage increases the possible effect of a limited stake, often by using borrowed money to control a larger investment. A poet may use it to explore unequal power, where a small advantage in wealth, knowledge, or position produces outsized influence. Because leverage magnifies losses as well as gains, it is apt for poems about precarious ambition, debt, pressure, and the dangerous confidence of those who believe they can control uncertainty.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem about a small business can show leverage when its owner uses borrowed funds to buy equipment that would otherwise be unaffordable; A speaker may describe a wealthy investor using leverage to control a large property with relatively little of their own money; In a labor poem, workers gain leverage when they organize together and can negotiate with an employer; A poet could write of a pawned heirloom as leverage for a loan, emphasizing the risk of losing something precious; Political leverage can appear in a poem when a community’s votes give it bargaining power for needed services
Additional Notes
Leverage means using debt or an advantage to magnify an outcome. Its poetic force lies in imbalance: small pressure may move something large, but risk also increases.
Also Known As
Financial Leverage Gearing
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