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

Exuberant

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 radiating unrestrained joy, vitality, and spirited enthusiasm, typically expressed through energetic verbs, vivid color, and dynamic rhythm.

Detailed Definition
Exuberant mood in poetry bursts with vitality through rapid rhythm, vivid color, and unrestrained diction; it appears in odes, nature poems, or declarations of love—like Whitman or Neruda—where the poet’s spirit overflows, transforming language into a cascade of sensory delight and emotional abundance that celebrates life’s sheer exuberance.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “Song of Myself,” Whitman’s exuberant catalogues celebrate life’s abundance; In “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats’ lush imagery conveys exuberant longing; Emily Dickinson’s “I taste a liquor never brewed” bursts with exuberant natural joy; In “The Tyger,” Blake’s hammering rhythm exudes exuberant creative energy; Mary Oliver’s “The Summer Day” ends with exuberant urgency about living fully; e.e. cummings’ “in Just-” captures exuberant childhood play in spring.
Additional Notes
Exuberant mood denotes overflowing energy and joy; expressed through abundant imagery, rhythmic vitality, and celebratory tone—e.g., Whitman’s catalogs; overlaps with jubilant, vivacious, and buoyant moods; differs from ecstatic in its outward, communal expression rather than inward rapture.
Also Known As
Joyful Lively Energetic Enthusiastic Spirited Full of the joys of spring
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