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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

push-pin

Games
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

Push-pin is a simple children's game involving the pushing of pins on a surface, sometimes used metaphorically for trivial pursuits.

Detailed Definition
Push-pin appears in poetry as an emblem of idle or childish occupation and the small stakes of minor contests. In literary contexts it represents the insignificant game. Poets invoke push-pin to illustrate themes of wasted time, the elevation of the trivial, and the contrast between serious concerns and the push of pins in the play of the young or the frivolous.
Example
Example in poetry:
Push-pin’s small stakes and idle motion appear in poems of trivial and time-killing play; Traditional verse uses the game for the occupations that consume without consequence; “They played push-pin while the greater game of the world went on” illustrates misplaced focus; Educational examples present the sport as the emblem of insignificant contest; Poets invoke push-pin when the energy of play must be shown as wasted or merely habitual.
Additional Notes
Push-pin’s small stakes and idle motion have long supplied poets with an emblem of trivial and time-killing play. The game’s metaphorical life as a figure for insignificant occupation is often stronger than its literal one. Teachers may explore how the language of the nursery migrates into moral or aesthetic judgment. Related idle games include the various forms of the pin game. The image works best when energy must be shown as wasted or merely habitual.
Also Known As
tack pin fastener
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