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 F

Faintness

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

A feeling of weakness or dizziness that may precede loss of consciousness. In poetry it often represents fragility, emotional overwhelm, or delicate sensibility.

Detailed Definition
Faintness refers to the sensation of light-headedness and weakness that can occur before a person loses consciousness. It may result from low blood pressure, hunger, illness, or emotional shock. In literary tradition faintness often appears in romantic or dramatic contexts, especially in scenes of grief or overwhelming passion. Poets use the image to convey the moment when emotion or physical strain becomes too intense for the body to bear.
Example
Example in poetry:
A sudden faintness overcame her in the heat; The poet described the faintness of a dying candle; He felt a faintness rise from his empty stomach; The faintness of the memory made it hard to recall; She leaned against the wall to combat the faintness; Faintness often precedes a full swoon in literature.
Additional Notes
Faintness refers to dizziness or weakness that may precede loss of consciousness. In literature it often represents delicate sensitivity or emotional overwhelm. Romantic poetry frequently portrays characters who grow faint from grief, love, or shock. The word may also suggest physical fragility or vulnerability. Because faintness occurs at the boundary between consciousness and collapse, it symbolises moments when the body or mind nearly fails under intense pressure.
Also Known As
Light-headedness Near-Fainting Pre-syncope languishment
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