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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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Cholera

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 severe infectious disease causing intense vomiting and dehydration. In poetry it can evoke fear, sudden death, and the terror of epidemic disease.

Detailed Definition
Cholera became one of the most feared epidemic diseases of the nineteenth century, spreading rapidly through contaminated water and causing severe dehydration and death. The dramatic outbreaks that swept through cities left deep impressions on the cultural imagination. In literature and poetry, cholera often symbolises the destructive force of unseen threats and the fragility of human life in crowded societies. References to the disease frequently evoke the atmosphere of panic, mourning, and social disruption that accompanied historical epidemics.
Example
Example in poetry:
The epidemic of cholera swept through the crowded streets; Poets wrote elegies for victims lost to cholera; The fear of cholera changed the city's sanitation forever; He described the blue skin of those struck by cholera; Cholera was seen as a judgment upon the filthy poor; The poem mourns the silence left by the cholera outbreak.
Additional Notes
Cholera was one of the most feared epidemic diseases of the nineteenth century, spreading rapidly and causing severe dehydration and death. Poets sometimes reference cholera to evoke historical catastrophe or the vulnerability of crowded cities. The disease symbolises sudden destruction, social panic, and the fragility of human life. Literary works dealing with urban poverty, colonial travel, or epidemics often mention cholera. Its presence in poetry reminds readers of the real medical dangers that shaped earlier societies.
Also Known As
Asiatic Cholera Epidemic Cholera
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