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

Anemic

Disease
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

Lacking vigor, color, or strength, as if drained of blood. Often suggests spiritual as well as bodily depletion.

Detailed Definition
Anemic describes a body or landscape diminished in color, warmth, and force. In poetry, it may characterize a pale face, weak dawn, exhausted city, or bloodless emotion. Though rooted in the medical condition of anemia, the term frequently works figuratively, allowing poets to suggest a life thinned by grief, poverty, fear, or long decline. Its muted sound suits imagery of pallor, frailty, and waning vitality.
Example
Example in poetry:
In a hospital poem, the speaker describes an anemic child whose “wrist was thin as a stem beneath the sheet,” using pallor and weakness to create pathos; A poet might write, “Anemic dawn seeped through the blinds,” using the medical adjective metaphorically for weak, colorless light; In a war poem, “the anemic soldiers queued for broth” can suggest both physical malnutrition and the exhaustion of a defeated army; A love poem could say, “After you left, my heart kept an anemic beat,” making illness a metaphor for diminished emotional life; In a city elegy, “Anemic grass pushed through the concrete” uses the word to portray fragile growth deprived of nourishment
Additional Notes
In poetry, anemic often describes more than physical illness: a landscape, voice, memory, or relationship may seem pale, weak, and deprived of life. Its associations with blood can suggest lost passion, emotional exhaustion, poverty, grief, or spiritual decline. Writers may use it to create a drained atmosphere, as in an “anemic dawn” or “anemic hope.” Compare wan, pallid, bloodless, depleted, and enervated; each implies weakness, but anemic especially evokes a lack of vitality or nourishing force.
Also Known As
Anaemic Anæmic
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