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 S

stick

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

Stick is a general term for the long implement used in various games, from hockey to billiards.

Detailed Definition
Stick enters poetry as a versatile emblem of the extended reach and the basic tool of play. In literary contexts it represents the simple instrument. Poets use the stick to explore themes of the swung or pushed force, the contact with the ball or puck, and the cultural object that has served across games as the mediator between the player and the object of the contest.
Example
Example in poetry:
The stick of any game appears as the elementary extension of the player’s will; Verse of hockey, billiards, or the nursery uses the simple word for the tool that makes contact; “He raised the stick and the whole geometry of the contest rearranged itself” illustrates initiated force; Educational poetry shows the implement as the common ancestor of cue, mallet, and caman; Poets keep the stick when the means of play must remain humble and exact.
Additional Notes
Stick, as the general term for the long implement of play, remains the most elementary and flexible image of the tool that extends the player’s will. The word’s applicability to hockey, billiards, or the nursery allows wide range. Classroom discussion can usefully examine how the same plain object acquires different meanings in different games. Related specific implements include the cue, the mallet, and the caman. The image works best when the means of contact must remain humble and exact.
Also Known As
Chapman Stick club
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