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

links

Games
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

Want to hear it? Click the Listen button to hear the browser speak the word using text-to-speech!

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

Links is the coastal sandy ground traditionally used for golf, or the course itself.

Detailed Definition
Links appears in poetry as a windswept emblem of the natural golf course and the challenge of the dunes. In literary contexts it represents the original ground of the game. Poets invoke the links to illustrate themes of the sea wind, the pot bunker, and the cultural landscape that has shaped the poetry of the ancient game and the exposed contest.
Example
Example in poetry:
The links of the coastal golf course appear in poems of wind, sand, and original ground; Scottish and modern verse place the game upon the dunes where it began; “He played the links until the sea itself seemed part of the hazard” demonstrates exposed contest; Educational poetry shows the term as both the land and the course; Poets invoke the links when the game must feel inseparable from the weather and the shore.
Additional Notes
Links, the coastal sandy ground of traditional golf, carry connotations of wind, exposure, and the original landscape of the game. Poets who choose the term often wish to emphasize the natural rather than the parkland course. Classroom discussion can usefully examine the difference between the links and the inland course. Related terrains include the dunes and the general language of the shore. The image rewards attention to the weather as an active opponent.
Also Known As
Golf Course Coastal Links Open Links
Skip to main content