A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

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 A

addle

Archaic Terms
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

To confuse, muddle, or make senseless; also describes eggs or brains that have become rotten or spoiled, creating a metaphor for mental confusion.

Detailed Definition
Originally meaning “to make or become putrid,” “addle” evolved to signify mental confusion or foolishness. In poetry, it often describes a mind clouded by grief, love, or folly. Its brevity and sharp sound suit satirical or introspective verse, where it conveys internal disorder or moral decay. Though rare, its archaic flavor adds texture to characterizations of distraction or irrationality in Early Modern and Romantic works.
Example
Example in poetry:
"His wits are addled by grief," a line that might appear in a Jacobean tragedy; In folk poetry, a mother laments, "My poor child’s mind is all addled from fever"; Shakespeare uses "addle" metaphorically in King Lear: "His brain is addled with age and sorrow"; "Addled thoughts like scrambled eggs," quipped a satirical Restoration poet; The knight’s addled senses failed to discern friend from foe; Her addled heart could not choose between duty and desire.
Additional Notes
“Addle” originally meant “to make rotten” (from Old English “adela,” meaning “mud”), later shifting to mental confusion; in poetic usage, it often describes corrupted thought or moral decay, especially in satirical or allegorical works of the 17th century.
Also Known As
confuse muddle befuddle
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