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 H

Hemorrhage

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

Severe or uncontrolled bleeding from a ruptured blood vessel. In poetry it can symbolise catastrophic loss or life draining away.

Detailed Definition
Hemorrhage refers to heavy bleeding caused by damaged blood vessels within the body. In severe cases it can quickly become life-threatening as blood loss weakens the vital organs. In literary imagery the dramatic nature of hemorrhage makes it a powerful symbol of sudden loss. Poets may use the term metaphorically to describe emotional devastation, societal collapse, or any situation in which life or vitality drains away uncontrollably.
Example
Example in poetry:
The soldier died from a severe hemorrhage; Poets use hemorrhage to describe massive loss of life; The brain hemorrhage changed his personality instantly; She described the hemorrhage of resources in the war; The wound began to hemorrhage despite the bandage; Hemorrhage represents a sudden and violent exit of life.
Additional Notes
Hemorrhage refers to severe bleeding from ruptured blood vessels. In poetry the image often symbolises catastrophic loss or uncontrolled outpouring. Writers may describe money, life, or emotion hemorrhaging away rapidly. The metaphor suggests both danger and urgency. Because blood carries strong symbolic associations with life itself, hemorrhage imagery emphasises the seriousness of loss and the fragile boundary between survival and destruction.
Also Known As
Bleeding Heavy Bleeding Haemorrhage
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