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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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Pig in a poke

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

A risky purchase or agreement made without prior inspection or knowledge of true value; derives from historical market practices where buyers purchased goods hidden in sacks without seeing contents.

Detailed Definition
Pig in a poke means something bought, accepted, or trusted without proper inspection, often leading to deception or disappointment. In poetry, the idiom can illuminate bargains, marriages, political promises, inheritances, or tempting appearances that conceal their real nature. Its market-place flavour gives it a rustic, proverbial quality, useful in satire and moral fable. A poet may use it to warn against credulity, showing how desire, haste, or social pressure can make a person accept a hidden danger wrapped as opportunity.
Example
Example in poetry:
A cautionary poem might warn the buyer not to trust a pig in a poke sold in a moonlit market; In satire, voters are offered a pig in a poke when promises replace details; The phrase means something bought or accepted without proper inspection; A poet can use it for deception and rash trust.
Additional Notes
A pig in a poke means something bought or accepted without inspection, with the risk of deception. The poke is a bag, and the phrase comes from older market life. In poetry, it can explore trust, fraud, marriage bargains, political promises, and hidden truth. Students should connect it with let the cat out of the bag, another idiom of concealed animals. It is useful for teaching suspicion of attractive but unseen offers.
Also Known As
unknown purchase
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