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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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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

Pin is the pole that holds the flag on a golf green, or the target in other games such as bowling.

Detailed Definition
Pin enters poetry as a slender emblem of the upright mark and the object to be approached or toppled. In verse it symbolizes the standing target. Poets use the pin to explore themes of the centered flag, the avoided contact, and the cultural object that has served as the focus of the putt and the bowling throw in the poetry of aim.
Example
Example in poetry:
The pin of the bowling alley or the golf green appears as the upright and vulnerable target; Verse of both sports uses the slender object for the focus of aim; “The ball kissed the pin and the order of the triangle collapsed” illustrates precise disruption; Educational examples present the term’s double life across different games; Poets keep the pin when the standing mark must invite both approach and impact.
Additional Notes
The pin, whether the flagstick on the green or the standing target of the bowling alley, concentrates the drama of aim into a slender and vulnerable upright. Poets may exploit either sense or let the two briefly coincide. Teachers should alert students to the context that disambiguates the term. Related objects include the flag and the general language of the target. The image rewards attention to the difference between the pin as guide and the pin as object to be struck.
Also Known As
flagstick flag pin flag push-pin Brooch
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