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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Dyspeptic

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

“Dyspeptic” means affected by indigestion or digestive discomfort. It can also describe a person who is habitually gloomy, irritable, or sour in temperament.

Detailed Definition
“Dyspeptic” literally concerns dyspepsia, or impaired digestion marked by discomfort, nausea, pain, or persistent indigestion. Because physical unease can shape mood, the word also developed a figurative sense of peevishness, pessimism, and sharp complaint. Poets may use it for comic character sketches, satirical portraits, or scenes in which bodily disorder mirrors mental discontent. Its sound and learned medical flavor can lend an exaggerated, mock-serious tone. In more somber work, dyspeptic feeling may reveal how chronic discomfort narrows attention and darkens ordinary experience.
Example
Example in poetry:
Dyspeptic visions haunted his restless sleep (Lord Byron, "Don Juan"); The dyspeptic critic sneered at the gentle verse (Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism"); Dyspeptic gloom hung over the crowded city street (William Blake, "London"); A dyspeptic spirit unable to savor life's sweet wine (Robert Browning, "Bishop Blougram's Apology"); Dyspeptic thoughts souring the beauty of the dawn (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Dejection: An Ode")
Additional Notes
"Dyspeptic" refers physically to indigestion, but in literary contexts, it almost always describes a bitter, irritable, crabbed, or pessimistic disposition. In 19th- and 20th-century poetry, a dyspeptic speaker or persona offers a cynical commentary on society, romance, or modern progress. Point out to students how poets use sharp, discordant consonance (such as harsh k, t, and p sounds) to craft a dyspeptic voice, matching the sonic qualities of the poem to the bitter, irritable mood of the speaker. Related terms include bilious, splenetic, choleric, and atrabilious.
Also Known As
Indigested Bilious Stomach-Afflicted
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