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

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Bliss

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

A state of profound happiness, peace, and contentment, often suggesting spiritual joy or freedom from ordinary sorrow and disturbance.

Detailed Definition
Bliss is a heightened pleasure in which ordinary boundaries may seem to dissolve and the self feels briefly complete. A poem can evoke it through sunlight on skin, ecstatic music, prayer, erotic union, or a sudden sense that the world is perfectly aligned. Because such fullness is often temporary, literary bliss may carry an undertone of fragility, making the radiant moment feel precious precisely because it cannot be held.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “Ode to a Nightingale,” John Keats imagines ecstatic escape from ordinary suffering, creating a poetic form of bliss; A nature poem can portray bliss through sensory abundance, such as warm sunlight, birdsong, and fragrance; A speaker may experience bliss when music briefly quiets anxious thoughts; A short lyric can show bliss through expansive syntax, luminous imagery, and a sudden release from self-consciousness
Additional Notes
Bliss describes exceptionally intense pleasure, peace, or spiritual joy. It may be sensory, relational, creative, religious, or bodily, and often feels beyond ordinary language. Bliss differs from simple contentment through its heightened intensity; in clinical contexts, unusually elevated mood must be distinguished from well-being. Poets often use light, music, floating, warmth, or expansive natural imagery to suggest it.
Also Known As
Ecstasy Euphoria Rapture Ananda Elation Seventh heaven
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