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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Jaundiced

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

“Jaundiced” means yellowed by jaundice, often because of liver or bile disorders. Figuratively, it means biased, cynical, or colored by resentment.

Detailed Definition
“Jaundiced” literally describes the yellowing of skin and eyes associated with excess bilirubin, often linked to disorders of the liver, gallbladder, blood, or bile ducts. Its striking color has given the word a powerful figurative sense: a jaundiced view sees the world through bitterness, envy, suspicion, or disillusionment. In poetry, yellowed vision can turn a medical symptom into an image of moral or emotional distortion. The term may suggest that illness changes not only appearance but also perception, mood, and judgment.
Example
Example in poetry:
Jaundiced eye that sees all things through bitter light (Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Criticism"); A jaundiced sky hanging over the industrial town (William Blake, "London"); Jaundiced envy corrupting the honest mind (William Shakespeare, "Othello"); Jaundiced leaves falling from the dying elm (John Clare, "Autumn"); Jaundiced view of human nobility and fate (Lord Byron, "Don Juan")
Additional Notes
"Jaundiced" literally means yellowed skin and eyes caused by liver malfunction or excess bile, but figuratively describes a bitter, cynical, or biased worldview. In 18th- and 19th-century poetry (such as Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism: "All seems infected that th' infected spy, / As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye"), jaundiced serves as a classic metaphor for corrupted perception. Instructors can use this term to illustrate how a speaker's internal psychological corruption distorts their vision of external truth and beauty. Related terms include bilious, cynical, discolored, and jaundice.
Also Known As
Bilious Yellowed Cynical Icteric
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