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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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Wipe the slate clean

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 phrase meaning to forgive past offenses, debts, or mistakes, allowing a fresh start, originating from literal cleaning of writing slates to erase previous records.

Detailed Definition
Wipe the slate clean means to forgive, erase past offences, cancel debts, or begin again without old marks. The idiom comes from writing on a slate that can be wiped clear, making it especially apt for poetry and education. In poetry, it can describe repentance, reconciliation, renewal, or the fantasy of escaping history. A poet may use it hopefully, but also question whether memory can truly be erased. The phrase is useful for exploring forgiveness, record, guilt, and new beginnings.
Example
Example in poetry:
A forgiveness poem might ask whether love can wipe the slate clean after years of silence; In a New Year poem, the dawn seems to wipe the slate clean for one hopeful morning; The phrase means to forgive past errors and begin again; A poet can use it for renewal.
Additional Notes
Wipe the slate clean means forgive, erase past wrongs, or begin again. The slate image evokes schoolrooms, chalk, accounts, and records that can be rubbed out. In poetry, it suits repentance, reconciliation, new years, childhood, moral accounting, and social renewal. Students should ask whether erasure is healing or whether traces remain despite wiping. It pairs well with chalk dust, ledgers, rain, hands, and the longing for a fresh start.
Also Known As
start fresh
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