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

Convulsion

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 sudden, violent contraction of the muscles often associated with seizures. In poetry it can represent extreme physical suffering or intense emotional upheaval.

Detailed Definition
Convulsion refers medically to involuntary, often violent muscle contractions that accompany certain neurological conditions or severe illness. In literary usage the word extends beyond medicine to convey sudden, overwhelming disturbance. Poets frequently describe landscapes, societies, or hearts as convulsed by grief, passion, or upheaval. The term’s dramatic imagery of bodily shaking lends itself naturally to poetic expression, suggesting forces that disrupt normal order with startling intensity.
Example
Example in poetry:
The earth shook in convulsion during the earthquake; He fell into a convulsion upon the battlefield; Poets use convulsion to describe violent emotional upheaval; The nation was in convulsion during the revolution; A convulsion of grief racked her slender frame; The storm ended with a final convulsion of wind.
Additional Notes
Convulsion describes violent involuntary muscle contractions often associated with seizures. In poetry it can represent both physical crisis and emotional upheaval. The word conveys sudden explosive movement, making it effective for describing storms, earthquakes, or political revolutions. Poets also use convulsion to depict overwhelming grief or rage shaking the body. Because of its dramatic intensity, the term often appears in moments of extreme crisis or transformation within literary narratives.
Also Known As
Fit Seizure Spasmodic Fit
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