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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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Stop at nothing

Idiomatic Phrase
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

Stop at nothing means to be ruthless or relentless in achieving a goal, regardless of moral or practical constraints; in tragic poetry, it depicts obsession, ambition, or the destructive pursuit of desire.

Detailed Definition
Stop at nothing means to pursue a goal without restraint, scruple, or willingness to accept limits. In poetry, the idiom can describe ambition, revenge, love, tyranny, survival, or obsession. It may sound heroic when the goal is rescue or justice, but frightening when morality is sacrificed. A poet may use it to explore determination pushed beyond conscience. The phrase is useful for examining the boundary between admirable commitment and destructive extremity, especially where desire turns all obstacles into enemies.
Example
Example in poetry:
A villain poem might say the usurper will stop at nothing to wear the crown; In a love ballad, the desperate speaker stops at nothing and loses honour; The phrase means to pursue a goal without moral limits; A poet can use it for obsession and danger.
Additional Notes
Stop at nothing means be willing to do anything, often ruthlessly, to achieve an aim. In poetry, it can characterise ambition, revenge, obsession, political power, or desperate love. The phrase removes moral boundaries, making desire frighteningly absolute. Students should ask whether determination has become monstrous. It pairs well with roads without gates, broken laws, sleepless pursuit, and the tragic cost of a will that recognises no limit.
Also Known As
determined
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