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 B

Blissful

Mood
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 mood expressing serene, untroubled joy or profound contentment, often evoked through peaceful imagery.

Detailed Definition
Blissful mood in poetry conveys transcendent contentment through luminous imagery, flowing rhythm, and harmonious diction; it appears in love sonnets, mystical verse, or nature epiphanies—like Keats or Rumi—where the speaker experiences a moment of pure, untroubled joy that feels eternal, transforming language into a vessel for the sublime simplicity of perfect peace.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” Wordsworth’s speaker experiences blissful joy at the sight of daffodils “dancing in the breeze”; Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the thing with feathers” conveys blissful resilience through gentle, uplifting imagery; In “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats momentarily achieves blissful escape through wine and poetry (“My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains”); Mary Oliver’s “The Summer Day” ends with blissful wonder: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?”; Rumi’s ecstatic poetry often expresses blissful union with the divine (“You are the source of my life”); In “Song of Myself,” Whitman celebrates the blissful interconnectedness of all beings (“I am large, I contain multitudes”).
Additional Notes
Blissful mood expresses pure, serene joy or contentment; typically conveyed through harmonious meter, soft consonants, and luminous imagery (e.g., Keats’s odes); closely related to euphoric, serene, and tranquil moods; avoid confusing with ecstatic or rapturous, which imply more intensity; ideal for pastoral or transcendent moments.
Also Known As
Joyful Ecstatic Euphoric Delighted Serene Rapturous gladsome
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