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

Impatiens

Flora
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 flowering plant with delicate blooms in bright colors and seed pods that burst open when touched.

Detailed Definition
Impatiens symbolize impatience and maternal love in Victorian flower language. The explosive seed pods that scatter seeds at touch give the plant its name and make it represent sudden actions, quick temper, or the decisive moment when patience ends. In shade garden poetry, impatiens provide bright color in dim places, representing cheer in darkness. The flower's delicate petals and jewel-like colors suggest fragility and vibrant life. Poets use impatiens to explore themes of waiting, sudden change, and the tension between delicacy and vigor.
Example
Example in poetry:
Impatiens' continuous bloom in shade represents cheerful persistence and adaptability; The plant's name (from explosive seed dispersal) adds imagery of sudden action and release; In tropical and subtropical poetry, wild impatiens represent native shade dwellers; The flowers' jewel tones (pink, orange, red, purple) create vibrant undercanopy color; Touch-sensitive seed pods that burst provide interactive, playful imagery; Impatiens as beginner's plants symbolize easy beauty and encouraging starts
Additional Notes
Impatiens offers kinetic imagery: its seed pods burst when touched, a built-in metaphor for impatience, surprise, or the release of pent-up feeling. In garden settings it suggests bright, soft colour in shade, often associated with balconies and summer bedding. Poets can use it to show how plants “respond” to contact, blurring lines between passive nature and active agency. It’s also useful in teaching personification and the poetry of small mechanisms in the living world.
Also Known As
Busy Lizzie Touch-me-not
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