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

Craving

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 powerful, persistent desire for a particular experience or object.

Detailed Definition
Craving is desire with bodily urgency, often narrowing attention until the wanted thing seems to promise relief, completion, or escape. Poetry can portray it through thirst, an empty chair, a mouth remembering a flavor, or a pulse that argues with reason. The term is useful for emotional, sensual, and addictive longing alike, especially when the desired object becomes symbolic of comfort, control, reunion, or freedom.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” the mariner’s intense desire for relief and forgiveness resembles craving; A poem may portray craving through repeated images of thirst, hunger, or an unreachable object; A speaker who keeps returning to a lost lover’s name can reveal emotional craving; Enjambment and repeated verbs can create the restless momentum of craving
Additional Notes
Craving is an urgent desire that captures attention and can produce physical sensations, intrusive thoughts, and difficulty delaying action. It is common in hunger, addiction, longing, and intense emotional attachment. A craving is not the same as a need, and noticing it does not require obeying it. Poetic representations often use thirst, hunger, magnetic pull, recurring refrains, or images of absence.
Also Known As
Urge Compulsion Strong Desire Desire Longing Wish
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