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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 the kibosh on

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 stop, prevent, or put an end to something decisively; colloquial expression suggesting forceful intervention that halts plans, activities, or developments completely and effectively.

Detailed Definition
Put the kibosh on means to stop, prevent, spoil, or decisively block something. In poetry, the idiom’s unusual sound gives it comic force and colloquial sharpness. It can describe a parent ending a plan, rain spoiling a festival, authority halting a protest, or reality ending a dream. The phrase is useful when a lively expectation is abruptly cut off. A poet may use it humorously or bitterly, depending on whether the blocked desire was foolish, innocent, necessary, or deeply cherished.
Example
Example in poetry:
A comic poem might say the headmistress put the kibosh on midnight singing in the dormitory; In political satire, a single scandal puts the kibosh on the minister's grand scheme; The phrase means to stop or prevent something; A poet can use it for abrupt comic authority.
Additional Notes
Put the kibosh on means stop, prevent, or decisively end something. The origin of kibosh is uncertain, which makes the idiom interesting historically. In poetry, it can add colloquial force to thwarted plans, comic reversals, parental prohibition, authority, or fate. Students should notice the phrase’s abrupt sound: it feels like a door slamming on possibility. It is useful when an ending is not elegant but bluntly imposed.
Also Known As
stop
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