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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

Home › Glossary › Letter P

Pointed saying

Device
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 sharp, brief statement that makes a clever or memorable observation.

Detailed Definition
Brief verses delivering sharp observations, wisdom, or wit through compressed language and often surprising conclusions. Epigrammatic in spirit though not necessarily conforming to strict epigram form. William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell" exemplify pointed sayings combining brevity with penetrating insight or provocative claims. Such verses should stick in memory through compression, cleverness, and ability to crystallize complex ideas or observations into quotable form. The point may be moral, satirical, philosophical, or simply observational, but sharpness and memorability distinguish pointed sayings from merely brief verse.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The unexamined life is not worth living” (Socrates) functions as a pointed saying in philosophical verse; In “Meditation XVII,” Donne’s “No man is an island” is a pointed saying on human interdependence; Proverbs like “Pride goeth before a fall” appear as pointed sayings in biblical poetry; Maya Angelou’s “Still I rise” distills resilience into the pointed saying “I am the dream and the hope”; Contemporary poet Warsan Shire’s “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark” is a pointed saying on refugee trauma.
Additional Notes
Brief verses delivering sharp observation or wisdom. Epigrammatic in spirit if not always form. Blake's "Proverbs of Hell" exemplify pointed sayings in verse. Combines brevity with bite or insight. Should stick in memory through compression and cleverness.
Also Known As
epigrammatic saying proverbial verse gnomic poetry sententious line Epigram
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