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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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tilting

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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

Tilting is the sport or exercise of riding at a target or opponent with a lance, a form of jousting practice.

Detailed Definition
Tilting appears in poetry as a chivalric emblem of the aimed charge and the breaking of the lance. In medieval and Renaissance verse it represents the knightly test. Poets draw on the tilt and the barrier to illustrate themes of the straight approach, the shock of impact, and the cultural spectacle of the lists that shaped the imagery of honor and combat.
Example
Example in poetry:
Tilting’s aimed charge and barrier-guided path appear in poems of formal and spectacular trial; Chivalric verse places the knight upon the measured track of the lists; “He came to the tilt as if coming to the only sentence that could still define him” illustrates committed approach; Educational poetry shows the exercise as the training form of the joust; Poets keep tilting when the combat must be both public and precisely directed.
Additional Notes
Tilting, as the formal exercise of the lance against a target or opponent, preserves the memory of the practice that prepares the joust. Poets who choose the term often wish to emphasize the measured approach and the guided charge. Classroom discussion can usefully contrast tilting with the open combat of the melee. Related forms include the joust and the passage of arms. The image rewards attention to the difference between the training run and the decisive encounter.
Also Known As
jousting tilt
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