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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Canker

Medical Terms
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 spreading sore or ulcer that gradually destroys surrounding tissue. In poetry it often symbolises corruption, decay, or hidden moral damage.

Detailed Definition
Canker historically referred to destructive sores or ulcers that slowly spread through tissue. The term appears frequently in older medical and botanical language, describing disease that eats away at living matter. In literature the image of a canker became a powerful metaphor for corruption or moral rot developing unseen within a person or society. Poets often describe jealousy, envy, or guilt as a canker in the heart, emphasising how destructive emotions can quietly erode inner harmony.
Example
Example in poetry:
Shakespeare wrote of the canker in the early bud of love; The canker of envy ate away at his friendship; Poets use canker to describe moral decay within society; The rose bloomed despite the canker hiding in its stem; A canker worm destroys the hope of the harvest season; The secret was a canker growing in the dark of his mind.
Additional Notes
Canker historically referred to spreading ulcers or sores, particularly those that slowly destroy surrounding tissue. In poetry the word commonly symbolises corruption, moral decay, or hidden evil that eats away at something beautiful. Shakespeare famously used the term to describe destructive envy or hypocrisy. Because cankers spread gradually, they make effective metaphors for social problems, jealousy, or internal guilt. The word is often linked with imagery of rot, worms, or blighted flowers in literary contexts.
Also Known As
Sore Ulcer Aphthous Ulcer Mouth Ulcer
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