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 I

Impatience

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

A psychological state marked by agitation, restlessness, and intolerance of delay, often conveyed through urgent rhythm.

Detailed Definition
Impatience reveals desire for control or immediacy. Poetry expresses it through rushed rhythm, clipped lines, or urgent repetition, capturing the tension between longing and the slow unfolding of time or resolution.
Example
Example in poetry:
In T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” impatience simmers in “Do I dare disturb the universe?”; In Sylvia Plath’s “Ariel,” impatience propels the horseback ride toward transformation; In Emily Dickinson’s “I never saw a Moor,” impatience is absent, highlighting faith’s immediacy; In Langston Hughes’ “Harlem,” impatience threatens in “Or does it explode?”; In Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” impatience is restrained by duty; In Adrienne Rich’s “Diving into the Wreck,” impatience drives urgent exploration.
Additional Notes
Impatience—a restless desire for change—often drives narrative tension (Hughes’ “Harlem”); differs from urgency by its frustration; poets use enjambment, clipped lines, or rhetorical questions; students should consider whether impatience is productive or destructive; note its historical context: impatience with injustice fuels protest poetry.
Also Known As
Restlessness Irritability Frustration Edginess
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