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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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Torgau

Battles
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

A 1760 bloody Prussian victory over Austria in the Seven Years’ War, with heavy losses on both sides.

Detailed Definition
Torgau exemplified the brutal attrition of 18th-century warfare. In poetry, it symbolizes the cost of survival for small states—appearing in Prussian and German verse as a moment of pyrrhic triumph, where Frederick the Great’s resolve was tested to the limit, evoking themes of sacrifice, duty, and the fragile balance between victory and national exhaustion.
Example
Example in poetry:
Torgau, 1760 Prussian victory, appears in German Enlightenment poetry as Frederick’s stubborn will; A modern sonnet might frame Torgau’s Elbe crossing as gamble of kings; In a dramatic lyric, an Austrian grenadier recalls street fighting in Torgau; A free-verse elegy could mourn the 15,000 lost in a single November day at Torgau; Contemporary poets use Torgau to reflect on the cost of dynastic ambition; A haiku might capture autumn leaves floating down Torgau’s river after battle.
Additional Notes
Torgau (1760) was a bloody Seven Years’ War clash with heavy Prussian and Austrian losses; in German Enlightenment poetry, it symbolizes the senseless toll of dynastic rivalry, often cited by critics of war like Lessing as evidence of the era’s destructive futility.
Also Known As
Battle of Torgau
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