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.

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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Drive someone up the wall

Idiomatic Phrase
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

To irritate, annoy, or frustrate someone intensely and persistently.

Detailed Definition
This vertical metaphor conveys escalating exasperation. In poetry, it often depicts domestic tension, creative block, or the abrasions of daily life. Poets use it in confessional or comic verse to articulate the buildup of minor grievances into emotional crisis. Its kinetic imagery (climbing walls as madness) adds visceral humor, making it effective in modern lyrics that validate ordinary frustrations as worthy subjects of art, bridging colloquial speech with psychological insight.
Example
Example in poetry:
Roommate feud: “Your snoring drives me up the wall—walls thin, patience thinner”; Political noise: “24-hour news cycle drives me up the wall, static drowning sense”; Creative block: “Blank page drives me up the wall—ideas trapped behind bone”; Parental exhaustion: “Toddler’s tantrum drives me up the wall, love fierce but frayed.”
Additional Notes
This vertical metaphor conveys escalating exasperation. In poetry, it depicts domestic tension, creative block, or the abrasions of daily life. Its kinetic imagery (climbing walls as madness) adds visceral humor. Students should note its colloquial strength in validating ordinary frustrations. Related idioms include “drive crazy” and “get on one’s nerves.” In confessional verse, it articulates buildup of minor grievances; in comic poetry, it exaggerates for effect. Avoid overuse in serious contexts—best paired with specific irritants: “Your snoring drives me up the wall—walls thin, patience thinner.”
Also Known As
Drive someone crazy
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