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

Desolate

Mood
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 mood evoking emptiness, isolation, and emotional barrenness, often through stark or abandoned imagery.

Detailed Definition
Desolate mood in poetry evokes emotional or physical emptiness through stark landscapes, hollow sounds, and sparse diction; it appears in exile verse, post-apocalyptic lyrics, or urban alienation—like Eliot’s wasteland—where absence becomes palpable, reflecting inner desolation and the human cost of disconnection or loss.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “The Waste Land,” T.S. Eliot paints desolate urban and spiritual landscapes (“I had not thought death had undone so many”); In “Dover Beach,” Matthew Arnold describes a “darkling plain” swept by “ignorant armies,” evoking desolation; Sylvia Plath’s “Tulips” renders a hospital room as emotionally desolate despite its brightness; W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming” envisions a desolate world where “the ceremony of innocence is drowned”; In “Ozymandias,” Shelley depicts a desolate desert where only ruins remain; Emily Dickinson’s “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” conveys internal desolation as reason collapses.
Additional Notes
Desolate mood evokes profound loneliness or abandonment; often depicted through barren landscapes, silence, or ruins—e.g., T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”; overlaps with bleak, forlorn, and dismal moods; useful for existential or post-catastrophe themes; more spatial and environmental than purely emotional terms like sorrowful.
Also Known As
Barren Lonely Forsaken Bleak Abandoned Forlorn comfortless woe-begone
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