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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

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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

Lists are the enclosed area or barriers within which medieval tournaments and jousts were held.

Detailed Definition
Lists enter poetry as the defined arena of chivalric combat and the bounded field of honor. In literary tradition they represent the public space of the contest. Poets use the lists to explore themes of the entry and the exit, the watching crowd, and the cultural enclosure that has framed the poetry of the knightly trial and the spectacle of arms.
Example
Example in poetry:
The lists of the tournament enclose the formal combat in poems of chivalric spectacle; Medieval verse stages the entry and the charge inside the wooden barriers; “They rode into the lists as if riding into the sentence that would define them” illustrates public trial; Educational examples present the space as the necessary architecture of the joust; Poets return to the lists whenever honor must be proven under the eyes of the court.
Additional Notes
The lists, the enclosed barriers of the medieval tournament, create a formal and public architecture of combat. Poets who invoke the space often stage the entry into the lists as an entry into irreversible trial. Instructors may explore the relationship between the lists and the surrounding spectators. Related structures include the barrier and the general language of the tilt-yard. The image works best when honor must be proven inside a clearly marked and watched enclosure.
Also Known As
Tournament Grounds Jousting Field Contest Arena
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