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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Chill

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 sensation of coldness often accompanying fever or illness. In poetry it may symbolise fear, loneliness, or the approach of death.

Detailed Definition
A chill is a sudden feeling of coldness, frequently occurring during fever or infection when the body temperature rises. In everyday language the word also conveys emotional reactions such as dread or unease. Poets use chill imagery to evoke physical discomfort, bleak weather, or the emotional coldness of grief and isolation. The sensation of cold passing through the body provides a vivid way to portray fear, mortality, or the loss of warmth in human relationships.
Example
Example in poetry:
A chill ran down his spine at the ghostly apparition; The poet felt the chill of death in the empty room; Morning dew brought a pleasant chill to the summer grass; There was a chill in her voice that froze his hope; The chill of the grave awaits us all eventually; He wrapped his cloak against the biting wind and chill.
Additional Notes
A chill in medical terms refers to shivering caused by fever or infection, yet poets often expand its meaning far beyond physical illness. The sensation of cold becomes symbolic of fear, loneliness, foreboding, or the presence of death. A chill wind, chill silence, or chill shadow may signal emotional distance or supernatural unease. The word frequently appears in gothic and romantic poetry. It can also mark moments where joy fades and a darker emotional atmosphere begins to emerge.
Also Known As
Shiver Cold Fit Rigour Shivering Fit frigid
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