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 D

Delusion

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 fixed, false belief resistant to reason, often arising from psychological disturbance.

Detailed Definition
Delusion in poetry offers access to subjective realities—madness, obsession, or utopian fantasy. Poets employ unreliable speakers, surreal imagery, and logical leaps to mirror delusional thinking. It serves to critique societal norms, explore extreme states, or dramatize the mind's capacity for self-deception. Delusion becomes a vehicle for irony, tragedy, or dark comedy, challenging readers to question what is real.
Example
Example in poetry:
Delusion in "Delusion o'er my Mind usurps Command" shows fancy ruling the senses; Windsor Guadalupe Jr's "And To Have And Have Not Is A Blur Of Delusion" describes love as a blur of delusion; In "Love In The Asylum," delusion is an environmental force; "Postcard" by Margaret Atwood exploits ekphrastic delusion; Baudelaire's "L'Albatros" and "Elevation" illustrate poetic delusion; The poem "Spirals, Rants, and Delusions" presents delusion as a way to believe everything is okay.
Additional Notes
Delusion in poetry offers access to subjective realities—madness, obsession, or utopian fantasy—often through unreliable speakers, surreal imagery, and logical leaps. Poets employ delusion to critique societal norms, explore extreme psychological states, or dramatize the mind's capacity for self-deception. In teaching, distinguish delusion from illusion: illusion is a deceptive appearance, while delusion is a fixed, false belief resistant to reason. Delusion becomes a vehicle for irony, tragedy, or dark comedy, challenging readers to question what is real and who can be trusted as a narrator.
Also Known As
False belief hallucination self-deception misconception Illusion
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