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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Lunacy

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 historical term for mental illness believed to be influenced by the moon. In poetry it often symbolises madness, irrationality, or ecstatic imagination.

Detailed Definition
Lunacy was once a legal and medical term describing forms of mental illness, based on the ancient belief that the moon influenced human behaviour. Although the scientific basis was flawed, the idea persisted in cultural imagination. Literary works often portray lunacy as a state in which reason collapses and imagination takes control. Poets use the term to explore the thin boundary between madness and creativity, portraying intense emotion or visionary insight as a form of inspired disorder.
Example
Example in poetry:
The moon was believed to cause fits of lunacy; Poets describe love as a form of sweet lunacy; He was committed to the asylum for lunacy; The crowd behaved with a collective lunacy; She wrote of the thin line between genius and lunacy; Lunacy laws governed the treatment of the mentally ill.
Additional Notes
Lunacy comes from the old belief that the moon influenced mental behaviour. In poetry it often symbolises madness, irrational passion, or dreamlike imagination. The moon’s changing phases reinforce ideas of shifting moods and unstable perception. Writers frequently link lunacy with night scenes and supernatural atmosphere.
Also Known As
Madness Insanity Mental Derangement madnesse Moon Madness
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