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

Flux

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

An old medical term for excessive discharge from the body, especially diarrhoea. In poetry it may symbolise instability, decline, or uncontrolled change.

Detailed Definition
Flux historically referred to abnormal bodily discharge, particularly severe diarrhoea, and was often associated with serious illness. The word also carries a broader sense of continual change or flow. In poetry this dual meaning allows it to operate both medically and metaphorically. Writers use flux to suggest instability in the body, the mind, or the natural world. The image of something flowing uncontrollably reinforces themes of disorder, transformation, and the difficulty of maintaining balance in human life.
Example
Example in poetry:
The poet wrote of the flux of time and tide; Soldiers suffered from the bloody flux in the trenches; All things are in a constant state of flux; The flux of the river changed the shoreline daily; He died from the flux during the campaign; Flux was an archaic term for dysentery in verse.
Additional Notes
Flux historically referred to excessive bodily discharge, especially diarrhoea, but its broader meaning involves continuous change or flow. In poetry the medical term can symbolise instability, transformation, or the inability to maintain balance. Writers sometimes play on both meanings at once, connecting bodily disturbance with philosophical ideas about change. Flux imagery often appears in reflections on time, nature, or shifting emotional states.
Other Meanings of “Flux”
Also Known As
Bloody Flux Diarrhoeal Flux Dysenteric Flux Becoming Flow
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