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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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queen high

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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

Queen high refers to a poker hand in which the queen is the highest card.

Detailed Definition
Queen high appears in poetry as a symbol of feminine or secondary authority in the hierarchy of cards. In literary contexts it represents the elevated yet limited power of the queen. Poets use it to illustrate themes of grace under constraint, the influence of the high but not highest, and the role of the queen in the unfolding drama of the hand.
Example
Example in poetry:
Queen high in the hand becomes the elevated yet limited feminine rank in poetry of hierarchy; Verse of the card table uses the queen without higher cards as a figure of secondary grace; “She held queen high and the hand was almost enough” illustrates near sovereignty; Educational examples present the term as a ranking that is strong but incomplete; Poets invoke queen high when power must still acknowledge a greater presence.
Additional Notes
Queen high ranks below king high and therefore functions as an emblem of elevated yet still limited power. Poets who choose the term often wish to stage the near-sovereign that remains incomplete. Teachers can use the hand to illustrate the fine gradations of the high-card rankings. Related hands include king high and ace high. The image works well when grace or authority must still acknowledge a greater presence.
Also Known As
Sovereign High Empress High Regal High
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