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

Affection

Psychology
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

Affection: A gentle, enduring feeling of fondness, care, and emotional closeness toward another being, explored in poetry as a quiet, sustaining force distinct from passionate love.

Detailed Definition
Affection is a soft attachment expressed through tenderness, familiarity, and small acts of regard. In verse, it may live in a mended sleeve, a remembered nickname, or the warmth left in a chair after someone rises. The feeling need not be dramatic: its psychological force often lies in repetition and quiet protection, showing how ordinary gestures create an enduring bond between people, places, creatures, or cherished objects.
Example
Example in poetry:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “How Do I Love Thee?” presents affection through repeated declarations and intimate address; A poem can express affection by describing the small habits of a friend with warmth; A speaker may show parental affection through protective images of shelter and light; A love poem can make affection clear through gentle diction rather than dramatic claims
Additional Notes
Affection is a warm attachment expressed through tenderness, attention, protection, or familiarity. It can exist in friendships, families, partnerships, and relationships with places or animals, without necessarily being romantic. Related concepts include fondness, attachment, intimacy, and compassion. In poetry, small gestures, repeated names, domestic details, and gentle sensory images often communicate affection more effectively than declarations.
Also Known As
Fondness Warmth Tenderness Attachment grá Love
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