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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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matadore

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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

Matadore refers to the high trump cards in certain games like ombre, or the act of taking a trick with them.

Detailed Definition
Matadore enters poetry as a symbol of decisive power and the master stroke that claims victory. In literary contexts it represents the superior force that cannot be overcome. Poets draw on its dominance to illustrate themes of mastery, the crushing of opposition, and the moments when a single element decides the entire contest.
Example
Example in poetry:
Matadore, the high trump that takes the trick, appears in poems of decisive and unanswerable force; Verse of the card table uses the term for the card that cannot be overcome; “He played the matadore and the rest of the hand was silence” illustrates absolute dominance; Educational poetry shows the word as the name for the master stroke in certain games; Poets keep matadore when one element must settle the entire contest.
Additional Notes
Matadore, the high trump that takes the trick, supplies poets with an image of decisive and unanswerable force. The term’s Spanish origin and association with ombre give it a slight exotic and period flavor. Classroom discussion can usefully place the matadore among the various names for the commanding card. Related concepts include the general language of the trump. The image is effective when one element must settle the entire contest beyond further reply.
Also Known As
matador
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