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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

Inflammation

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 bodily response to injury or infection marked by redness, swelling, and pain. In poetry it can symbolise both physical irritation and the burning of passion or anger.

Detailed Definition
Inflammation is the body’s natural reaction to injury or infection, producing heat, swelling, and discomfort as part of the healing process. The term’s imagery of burning and irritation has strong metaphorical resonance in literature. Poets frequently use inflammation to describe emotional states such as anger, jealousy, or fervent passion. By comparing emotional disturbance to a physical irritation in the body, writers emphasise the intensity and discomfort of feelings that flare up unexpectedly.
Example
Example in poetry:
The wound showed signs of red inflammation; Poets use inflammation to describe heated arguments; The inflammation of the joint caused him great pain; She wrote of the inflammation of political tensions; The eye suffered from inflammation due to the dust; Inflammation is the body's response to injury or infection.
Additional Notes
Inflammation describes the body’s response to injury marked by redness, swelling, heat, and pain. In poetry the term often symbolises burning emotion or rising conflict. Anger, passion, and rebellion may inflame the heart or mind. The imagery of heat and swelling conveys intensity and expansion. Inflammatory language can therefore describe both physical illness and emotional agitation.
Also Known As
Inflamed Condition Irritation Inflammatory State
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