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 C

Contentment

Psychology
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 state of peaceful satisfaction with one’s current circumstances.

Detailed Definition
Contentment reflects inner calm and acceptance, free from desire or regret. In poetry, it emerges through pastoral imagery, measured rhythm, or quiet affirmation, offering a counterpoint to longing and serving as a momentary resolution in the human emotional spectrum.
Example
Example in poetry:
In William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” contentment blooms with the daffodils “dancing in the breeze”; In Mary Oliver’s “The Summer Day,” contentment lies in mindful presence: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life?”; In Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” quiet contentment tempers duty’s call; In Matsuo Bashō’s haiku “Old pond / a frog jumps in— / sound of water,” contentment emerges in simplicity; In Li-Young Lee’s “From Blossoms,” contentment is found in shared joy over peaches; In Rumi’s poetry, contentment arises from spiritual surrender and divine love.
Additional Notes
Contentment—a quiet satisfaction—differs from happiness by its lack of intensity or desire for change; in poetry, it often appears in pastoral or meditative modes (Wordsworth, Bashō); linked to mindfulness and acceptance; poets use steady meter, soft consonants, or cyclical imagery to convey it; useful contrast with joy (exuberant) or anhedonia (numb); for students, contentment may signal resolution or critique of consumerist striving.
Also Known As
Satisfaction Serenity Peace of mind Tranquility Santosha
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