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

Buoyant

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

Describing a mood that is cheerfully optimistic, resilient in adversity, and marked by a light, uplifting spirit.

Detailed Definition
Buoyant mood in poetry conveys uplifting optimism through springing rhythm, bright imagery, and forward momentum; it appears in recovery poems, nature celebrations, or affirmations of love—like Dickinson’s hopeful verses—where the spirit rises above difficulty, using lyrical energy to suggest renewal, joy, and the enduring power of hope.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats’ speaker feels buoyant when lifted by the bird’s song into imaginative realms; Walt Whitman’s “Song of the Open Road” exudes buoyant optimism (“Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road”); In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” Wordsworth’s heart “dances with the daffodils,” showing buoyant joy; Mary Oliver’s “Wild Geese” offers buoyant reassurance: “You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves”; Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the thing with feathers” presents hope as a buoyant, persistent presence; In “The Peace of Wild Things,” Wendell Berry finds buoyant relief in nature’s calm.
Additional Notes
Buoyant mood conveys resilient optimism and light-hearted energy; expressed through uplifting rhythms, bright imagery, and forward momentum—seen in celebratory or recovery-themed poems; closely linked to exuberant, jubilant, and vivacious moods; differs from euphoric in its steadier, less overwhelming quality.
Also Known As
Cheerful Optimistic Lighthearted Uplifted Joyful Sanguine afloat
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