A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

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 Q

quoits

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

Quoits is a game in which players throw rings of rope, rubber, or metal to land around a stake or pin.

Detailed Definition
Quoits appears in poetry as a traditional emblem of the circling throw and the encircling of the target. In literary contexts it represents the ancient contest. Poets invoke quoits to illustrate themes of the flying ring, the hob, and the cultural continuity of the game that has shaped images of accuracy and the claim of the stake.
Example
Example in poetry:
Quoits in the plural appear when the rings themselves become the collective instruments of play; Verse uses the plural for the set of objects that define the contest; “The quoits left the hand like a flight of small, determined moons” illustrates repeated aim; Educational examples present the term as the full equipment of the game; Poets return to quoits when the material of the sport must be felt in its multiplicity.
Additional Notes
Quoits, in the plural, emphasize the set of rings that constitute the full equipment of the game. Poets who choose the plural often wish to linger on the material multiplicity of the contest. Teachers may explore the difference between the singular quoit and the plural equipment. Related tossing games include horseshoes and the various ring-toss forms. The image works best when the objects themselves must be felt in their repeated and collective flight.
Also Known As
horseshoes
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