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

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Decrepit

Disease
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

“Decrepit” means worn down, feeble, and impaired by old age, decay, or long neglect. It may describe a body, building, object, or institution.

Detailed Definition
“Decrepit” originally refers to the physical weakness and infirmity associated with advanced age, though it is often applied more broadly to anything dilapidated or failing. In poetry, a decrepit person, house, gate, or city can create an atmosphere of decline and mortality. The term links bodily deterioration with ruined material surroundings, allowing poets to compare age to rust, broken stone, sagging timber, or fading light. It appears when a poem seeks to confront impermanence, abandonment, social decay, or the dignity and sorrow of survival.
Example
Example in poetry:
The decrepit oak stood hollow against the storm (William Wordsworth, "The Oak and the Broom"); A decrepit usher sitting in the dimming light (Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher"); Decrepit walls where ivy creeps in silent decay (Lord Byron, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"); He walked with decrepit steps along the ancient road (Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village"); Decrepit age yields to the relentless march of time (William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 73")
Additional Notes
"Decrepit" conveys advanced decay, feebleness, and structural breakdown, applicable equally to aging human bodies and deteriorating physical objects (such as ruined castles, rotting ships, or crumbling ancestral homes). In Gothic poetry and Romantic ruins literature (e.g., Byron or Shelley), decrepit settings often mirror the psychological state of the speaker or characters. Students should pay attention to how poets use decrepit imagery to create mood, symbolize the passage of time, or critique falling empires. In modern poetry, a decrepit urban landscape often serves as a backdrop for exploring alienating, post-industrial conditions. Related terms include dilapidated, decrepitude, senescent, and ruinous.
Also Known As
Senescent Time-Worn Enfeebled decrepid
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