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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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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

Raffling is the act of conducting or participating in a raffle, the process of distributing prizes by chance.

Detailed Definition
Raffling appears in poetry as the dynamic process of fortune's distribution among a group. In verse it represents the active stirring of chance. Poets draw on the act of raffling to illustrate themes of collective anticipation, the mixing of tickets, and the moment when fate selects the winners from the mass of participants.
Example
Example in poetry:
Raffling as the active process appears when the stirring of chance must be shown in motion; Verse uses the verbal form for the shaking or the drawing that decides; “They were raffling the evening away one ticket at a time” illustrates gradual surrender to luck; Educational poetry shows the term as the dynamic counterpart to the static raffle; Poets keep raffling when the action of distribution must itself become part of the scene.
Additional Notes
Raffling, as the active process, emphasizes the stirring and the drawing that decide the outcome. Poets who choose the verbal form often wish to linger on the action rather than the static event. Classroom discussion can usefully examine the difference between the raffle as noun and the raffling as ongoing practice. Related processes include the various forms of the lot-drawing. The image is effective when the distribution itself must be shown in motion.
Also Known As
chance raffle lucky draw prize lottery
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