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

Euphoric

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 of intense, exhilarating joy or elation, often conveyed through exuberant diction, rapid rhythm, bright imagery, and expansive syntax.

Detailed Definition
Euphoric mood in poetry captures overwhelming happiness or ecstatic rapture, often used to express moments of transcendence, love, or spiritual awakening; poets employ vivid imagery, rhythmic exuberance, and elevated diction to mirror this heightened emotional state, as seen in Whitman’s celebratory verses or Shelley’s odes, where language itself seems to soar, inviting readers into a shared experience of blissful intensity.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats experiences euphoric escape through wine and poetry; Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” bursts with euphoric celebration of existence; In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” Wordsworth’s heart dances with euphoric joy; Emily Dickinson’s “I taste a liquor never brewed” conveys euphoric intoxication with air and dew; Rumi’s mystical poetry expresses euphoric union with the divine; In “The Peace of Wild Things,” Wendell Berry finds euphoric relief in nature’s calm.
Additional Notes
Euphoric mood expresses intense, almost overwhelming happiness or elation; often rendered through soaring metaphors, rapid rhythm, and radiant imagery; overlaps with ecstatic, rapturous, and exultant moods; common in Romantic or visionary poetry; distinguish from blissful by its intensity and possible instability.
Also Known As
Ecstatic Overjoyed Elated Rapturous Jubilant Blissful opiate
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