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

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Gratification

Psychology
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

The satisfaction produced when a desire, need, or impulse is fulfilled.

Detailed Definition
Gratification marks the emotional reward that follows attainment, consumption, recognition, or release. A poem may place immediate gratification beside delayed fulfillment, contrasting the bright bite of possession with the quieter value of waiting. The term can illuminate appetite, ambition, sexuality, praise, and revenge, while also asking whether satisfaction truly resolves longing or merely teaches desire to return in a new and more demanding form.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,” promised pleasures are presented as immediate gratification through gifts, flowers, and seasonal delights; A comic poem may show gratification when a speaker receives the reward desired throughout the poem; A poem can contrast instant gratification with delayed fulfillment by placing quick pleasures beside patient labor; Repeated sensory images of sweetness, warmth, and touch can make gratification vivid
Additional Notes
Gratification is the pleasure or relief that follows fulfillment of a desire, goal, need, or impulse. Immediate gratification satisfies quickly, while delayed gratification involves postponing reward for a larger or later benefit. The concept connects with reinforcement, motivation, self-control, and reward learning. Poetry may depict gratification through release, sweetness, arrival, completion, or the contrast between wanting and having.
Also Known As
Satisfaction Pleasure Reward
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