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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.

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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Turn up one's nose

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

An idiomatic expression indicating disdain, contempt, or rejection by physically lifting one's nose, symbolizing an attitude of superiority or refusal to accept something as worthy.

Detailed Definition
Turn up one's nose means to reject, disdain, or show contempt for something considered inferior. In poetry, the idiom makes snobbery visible through a bodily gesture of smell and posture. It can describe class prejudice, aesthetic judgement, food, work, suitors, customs, or humble pleasures. A poet may use it satirically to expose arrogance or delicacy. The phrase is useful for exploring taste, status, disgust, and the way social judgement often appears in small movements of the body.
Example
Example in poetry:
A satire might show the duchess turning up her nose at honest bread while praising painted cakes; In a village poem, the proud visitor turns up his nose at plain hospitality; The phrase means to reject something as beneath one's taste or status; A poet can use it to mock snobbery.
Additional Notes
Turn up one’s nose means show disdain, snobbery, or contempt. The bodily gesture suggests looking down while literally raising the nose away from something deemed inferior. In poetry, it can satirise class prejudice, aesthetic judgement, food, fashion, dialect, or moral superiority. Students should ask whether the disdain is justified or merely reveals the speaker’s vanity. It pairs well with smells, banquets, markets, drawing rooms, and social exclusion.
Also Known As
disdain
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