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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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stadium

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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

Stadium is a large structure with tiered seating for spectators around a field or track for sports and contests.

Detailed Definition
Stadium enters poetry as a modern and classical emblem of the massed audience and the central performance. In verse it symbolizes the public measure of excellence. Poets use the stadium to explore themes of the packed stands, the field below, and the cultural architecture that has turned the contest into a shared spectacle of skill and passion.
Example
Example in poetry:
The stadium’s rising seats and central field supply poets with images of massed attention and public trial; Classical and modern verse place the individual drama inside the architecture of the crowd; “He entered the stadium as if entering the only sentence that would be heard” illustrates exposed performance; Educational examples present the space as the necessary condition of spectacle; Poets return to the stadium whenever private effort must be magnified by the surrounding gaze.
Additional Notes
The stadium’s tiered seating and central field create a modern and classical architecture of massed attention and public trial. Poets who invoke the structure often stage the relationship between the exposed performer and the surrounding gaze. Teachers may contrast the stadium with the amphitheatre or the circus for differences in form and historical resonance. Related spaces include every large arena of spectacle. The image is effective when private effort must be magnified by the collective witness.
Other Meanings of “stadium”
Also Known As
Sports Complex Event Venue Athletic Stadium
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