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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

Home › Glossary › Letter T

Two-Step

Dance
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 simple partner dance based on a repeated quick-quick-slow pattern. In poetry, it can suggest courtship, hesitation, and familiar social rhythm.

Detailed Definition
The two-step is a broad name for partner dances built on a repeating pattern of steps, especially associated with country-western dance halls in the United States. Its accessible rhythm makes it an image of ordinary sociability rather than elite performance. In poetry, a two-step can describe flirtation, compromise, or the careful timing required between people who do not move at quite the same speed. The phrase may also be used metaphorically for evasive maneuvering, but its dancing sense retains an undertone of music, proximity, and shared balance.
Example
Example in poetry:
The dancers two-step around the hall, and the poem repeats a simple forward-and-turning motion; A two-step can represent courtship because its paired movement requires attention to another person’s pace; In a country setting, the two-step and fiddle music can establish a local social world with economical detail; A poet may write two balanced clauses per line to imitate the steady, uncomplicated rhythm of a two-step
Additional Notes
The two-step’s recurring quick-quick-slow pattern offers a clear model for poetic pacing. Use it metaphorically for a relationship’s advances and pauses, or structurally through short-short-long phrases and recurring rhythmic expectations.
Also Known As
Two Step Country Two-Step Texas Two-Step
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