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 E

Emaciation

Medical Terms
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

Extreme thinness caused by severe weight loss from illness or starvation. In poetry it often symbolises suffering, poverty, or the fading of life.

Detailed Definition
Emaciation describes the severe wasting of body tissue that occurs when a person loses large amounts of weight due to illness, starvation, or chronic disease. The condition dramatically alters appearance, revealing bones beneath the skin. In literature such imagery conveys the stark reality of human suffering. Poets sometimes employ emaciation to highlight the effects of poverty, illness, or emotional depletion, using the thin body as a symbol of life gradually diminishing.
Example
Example in poetry:
The famine led to visible emaciation in the children; Poets describe emaciation as the shadow of starvation; Her beauty faded into emaciation due to grief; The horse showed signs of severe emaciation and neglect; Emaciation was a common theme in war poetry; The sculptor captured the emaciation of the saint perfectly.
Additional Notes
Emaciation describes extreme thinness caused by severe illness or starvation. In poetry the image of a wasted body often symbolises suffering, poverty, or prolonged hardship. Writers may portray emaciated figures to evoke compassion or social criticism. The word also appears metaphorically when describing landscapes stripped of vitality or societies drained of strength. Because emaciation represents visible decline, it powerfully illustrates themes of exhaustion, deprivation, and mortality.
Also Known As
Wasting Severe Thinness Extreme Leanness
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