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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. 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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Panipat

Battles
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

Refers to multiple Indian battles, notably the 1526 and 1761 clashes that shaped Mughal and Maratha power.

Detailed Definition
Panipat is a crossroads of Indian history and empire. In poetry, it symbolizes the cyclical rise and fall of dynasties—appearing in Persian, Urdu, and Hindi verse as a site of epic tragedy, where ambition met fate on dusty plains, and every victory sowed the seeds of future collapse through blood and betrayal.
Example
Example in poetry:
Panipat, site of three decisive Indian battles, appears in Urdu and Persian poetry as fate’s recurring stage; A modern sonnet might frame the Third Battle of Panipat (1761) as Maratha dreams shattered; In a dramatic lyric, a Rohilla warrior recalls Ahmad Shah Durrani’s Afghan tide at Panipat; A free-verse elegy could mourn the thousands lost in Panipat’s dusty plain; Contemporary poets use Panipat to reflect on cyclical violence in South Asia; A haiku might capture kites circling over Panipat’s memorial stones.
Additional Notes
Panipat refers to three pivotal battles (1526, 1556, 1761) that shaped South Asian empires; especially the 1761 clash between Marathas and Afghans, which halted Maratha expansion—this cataclysm features in Indo-Persian and Marathi poetry as a lament for lost unity and the tragic cost of internal division.
Also Known As
First Battle of Panipat Second Battle of Panipat Third Battle of Panipat
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