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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.

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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Place in the sun

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 position of prominence, advantage, or favorable recognition; suggests achieving a status where one receives attention, success, or benefits comparable to standing in warm sunlight.

Detailed Definition
Place in the sun means a position of opportunity, recognition, security, or rightful flourishing. In poetry, the idiom can suggest personal fulfilment, social justice, national ambition, artistic visibility, or the longing to be seen and warmed by life. The sun image gives the phrase associations of growth, dignity, radiance, and belonging. A poet may use it to express hope for the excluded, or to question competition for limited light. It is valuable in poems about aspiration, equality, and human worth.
Example
Example in poetry:
A social poem might show the orphan seeking a place in the sun after years in service; In political verse, a small nation asks for its place in the sun among empires; The phrase means a fair chance, recognition, or prosperity; A poet can use it for dignity and aspiration.
Additional Notes
A place in the sun means a favourable, recognised, or secure position, often implying opportunity, status, or national ambition. In poetry, it can be personal, political, colonial, or spiritual. The sun suggests warmth, visibility, growth, and legitimacy, but also exposure and competition for space. Students should ask who is denied sunlight and who claims it. The phrase suits poems about belonging, power, migration, and aspiration.
Also Known As
favorable position
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