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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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Write off

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

A phrasal verb idiom meaning to dismiss something as unimportant, cancel a debt, or regard a person or idea as a failure; in literary analysis, it can explore themes of redemption, loss, societal dismissal, or the erasure of identity and potential.

Detailed Definition
Write off means to dismiss, disregard, abandon hope for, cancel as a loss, or judge something no longer worth attention. In poetry, the idiom can describe people, dreams, debts, damaged objects, failed relationships, or entire communities treated as expendable. Its accounting origin gives it a cold bureaucratic tone, useful for social critique. A poet may use it to expose how language can erase value. The phrase is powerful when the written-off person or thing still possesses dignity, memory, or hidden possibility.
Example
Example in poetry:
A war poem might write off the ruined bridge as lost, though children later cross it in dreams; In satire, the banker writes off the poor man's hopes as if they were bad debts; The phrase means to dismiss something as a failure or loss; A poet can use it for cold judgement and resistance to it.
Additional Notes
Write off can mean dismiss as worthless, abandon hope for, cancel a debt, or declare something a total loss after damage. In poetry, this range is useful: people, places, dreams, debts, and wrecked vehicles may all be written off. The phrase connects judgement with writing, accounts, and official records. Students should ask who has the authority to write something off and whether the dismissed subject retains hidden value. It pairs well with ledgers, reports, ruins, and rejected lives.
Also Known As
dismiss
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