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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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I want.

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.

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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Make a scene

Idiomatic Phrase
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

Make a scene means to create a public disturbance or dramatic display of emotion; in social settings, it breaches decorum, drawing attention through outcry, anger, or theatrical behavior, often causing embarrassment.

Detailed Definition
Make a scene means to behave dramatically, publicly, or disruptively, often by displaying anger, grief, distress, or indignation. In poetry, the idiom is useful for social embarrassment, theatricality, family conflict, public protest, or emotional overflow. It also has a metapoetic quality: poems themselves make scenes by arranging voices, actions, and images. A poet may use the phrase to question why certain emotions are judged improper in public, and whether restraint protects dignity or silences truth.
Example
Example in poetry:
A comic poem might show the jealous lover making a scene beneath the balcony; In a family ballad, the aunt makes a scene when the secret wedding is announced; The phrase make a scene means to cause a public disturbance through strong emotion; A poet can use it for embarrassment, comedy, or drama.
Additional Notes
Make a scene means create a public disturbance or emotional display. In poetry, it can dramatise social embarrassment, suppressed feeling breaking through manners, or the conflict between private pain and public decorum. The word scene also has theatrical force, suggesting performance, spectators, and staging. Students should ask whether the scene is shameful disruption, necessary protest, comic excess, or the only way a silenced person can be heard.
Also Known As
Kick up a fuss
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