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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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On the up and up

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

On the up and up|Idiomatic Phrase|Improving, progressing positively, or becoming more successful; also denotes honesty, integrity, and legitimacy in conduct or business practices.

Detailed Definition
On the up and up can mean improving, rising, or becoming more successful; in some usage it also means honest and legitimate. In poetry, both senses can be useful. A speaker, town, career, or relationship may appear to be on the up and up, suggesting renewal and hope. Alternatively, the phrase may test trustworthiness in a world of suspicion. Its upward movement lends itself to images of ascent, recovery, ambition, and moral straightness, but poets may also use it ironically.
Example
Example in poetry:
A hopeful poem might say the village is on the up and up after the school reopens; In a character sketch, a reformed thief seems finally on the up and up; The phrase can mean improving or honest and legitimate; A poet should let context decide which sense is intended.
Additional Notes
On the up and up can mean honest and legitimate, and in some contexts improving steadily. In poetry, that dual sense can be useful: moral straightness and upward progress may overlap. The phrase suits social mobility, recovery, business, reform, and character judgement. Students should use context to clarify meaning. The repeated up gives it a buoyant rhythm, though a poet may use it ironically when improvement is merely claimed.
Also Known As
honest
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