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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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Put one's house in order

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

To organize one's affairs, responsibilities, or life systematically; suggests bringing order to chaos, resolving outstanding issues, and establishing proper management of personal matters.

Detailed Definition
Put one's house in order means to organise one’s affairs, correct faults, settle responsibilities, or prepare for judgement, change, death, or public scrutiny. In poetry, the idiom can be domestic, moral, political, or spiritual. The house may represent the self, family, nation, conscience, or body. A poet may use it before departure, illness, confession, or reform. The phrase is useful because it connects practical tidying with deeper ethical preparation, asking what must be repaired before peace is possible.
Example
Example in poetry:
A moral satire might tell the corrupt preacher to put his house in order before judging the village; In an elegy, the dying speaker puts his house in order by making peace with memory; The phrase means to correct one's own affairs or behaviour; A poet can use it spiritually, domestically, or politically.
Additional Notes
Put one’s house in order means organise one’s affairs, correct problems, or prepare responsibly, often before judging others or before death. In poetry, the house may be literal, psychological, moral, familial, or political. The idiom suits ageing, repentance, reform, illness, and domestic reckoning. Students should ask what the house represents: body, soul, family, nation, estate, or memory. Order may comfort, but it may also conceal disorder.
Also Known As
organize affairs
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