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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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I want.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the 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.

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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Climb the walls

Idiomatic Phrase
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

Climb the walls: to be driven to extreme anxiety, frustration, or restlessness; the image of frantic, irrational climbing conveys a feeling of being trapped by circumstances or emotion.

Detailed Definition
Climb the walls means to feel extreme restlessness, anxiety, frustration, boredom, or confinement. In poetry, it is useful for claustrophobic rooms, domestic pressure, imprisonment, fever, insomnia, grief, addiction, or enforced waiting. The phrase turns mental agitation into a physical impossibility, as though the body seeks escape by defying ordinary movement. Its exaggeration can be comic, but in darker contexts it conveys desperation. Poets can pair it with walls, cages, ceilings, or closed windows to intensify trapped emotion.
Example
Example in poetry:
A comic poem might show the impatient lover climbing the walls while waiting for a reply; In a confinement poem, climb the walls conveys mental restlessness; The phrase suits poems about boredom, anxiety, or trapped energy; A poet could use it when a room seems too small for the speaker's thoughts.
Additional Notes
Climb the walls describes extreme frustration, anxiety, boredom, or confinement. In poetry it can make mental distress physical, as if the body tries to escape a closed room. It suits poems about waiting, illness, imprisonment, insomnia, domestic pressure, or addiction. The image can be literalised into surreal or Gothic scenes where walls become both setting and psychological barrier.
Also Known As
extremely anxious
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