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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Inflamed

Disease
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

“Inflamed” means made red, swollen, hot, or painful by inflammation. Figuratively, it can describe passions, conflict, or anger intensified to a dangerous degree.

Detailed Definition
“Inflamed” describes the visible and painful effects of inflammation, the body’s response to injury, infection, irritation, or disease. A wound, joint, throat, or organ may be inflamed, producing heat, swelling, redness, and tenderness. In poetry, these bodily signs readily become metaphors for rage, desire, fevered speech, or public unrest. The word is effective because it joins inner feeling to physical heat, making anger or passion seem contagious, painful, and capable of spreading through an individual or a community.
Example
Example in poetry:
Inflamed passions sweeping through the crowded street (William Blake, "The French Revolution"); An inflamed sunset burning along the west (John Keats, "To Autumn"); Inflamed eyes watching through the sleepless night (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"); Inflamed words spoken in the heat of strife (Lord Byron, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"); Inflamed wounds of a nation divided by war (Walt Whitman, "Drum-Taps")
Additional Notes
"Inflamed" describes tissue that is red, swollen, hot, and painful, but figuratively denotes intense passion, rage, political unrest, or artistic fever. In poetic diction, inflamed imagery bridges the physical and emotional worlds: a speaker might describe an "inflamed heart" or "inflamed skies" to reflect personal or cosmic turmoil. Help students identify how poets pair sensory words related to heat and pressure (scorching, throbbing, blazing) with inflamed subjects to create heightened dramatic urgency within romantic or political poetry. Related terms include feverish, incendiary, impassioned, and swollen.
Also Known As
Enkindled Irritated Fevered
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