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

Indisposition

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

A mild illness or general feeling of being unwell. In poetry it often conveys subtle physical discomfort or emotional reluctance.

Detailed Definition
Indisposition refers to a slight illness or temporary state of poor health that does not rise to the level of serious disease. In earlier social language it was often used politely to explain absence or withdrawal. In literature the word conveys a sense of delicate discomfort rather than dramatic suffering. Poets sometimes employ indisposition to depict moments when the body or mind withdraws gently from activity, suggesting quiet vulnerability or fatigue.
Example
Example in poetry:
She apologized for her absence due to indisposition; Poets use indisposition as a euphemism for illness; A slight indisposition kept him from the party; He cited indisposition as the reason for his retreat; The letter mentioned her mother's recent indisposition; Indisposition suggests a mild rather than severe sickness.
Additional Notes
Indisposition refers to mild illness or a vague feeling of being unwell. In poetry it often conveys subtle discomfort rather than dramatic suffering. Writers may use the term to depict characters who withdraw from activity due to fatigue or emotional strain. The word also appears in polite or formal contexts where illness is described gently rather than directly.
Also Known As
Slight Illness Minor Ailment Feeling Unwell
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