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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Miserable

Mood
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 mood conveying profound unhappiness, distress, or despair, often expressed through bleak diction, oppressive imagery, or rhythmic heaviness.

Detailed Definition
Miserable mood in poetry conveys profound suffering through stark imagery, broken rhythm, and raw diction; it appears in confessional verse, poverty poems, or illness lyrics—like Plath or early Eliot—where the speaker’s pain is unvarnished and immediate, using language to make emotional or physical agony palpable, demanding witness without offering easy solace.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “The Raven,” Poe’s speaker is miserable in his grief over Lenore; Emily Dickinson’s “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” conveys miserable mental collapse; In “Dover Beach,” Matthew Arnold describes a miserable world without joy; Sylvia Plath’s “Tulips” renders hospital recovery as miserable; Thomas Hardy’s “The Darkling Thrush” opens with a miserable winter landscape; In “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” the speaker’s self-loathing creates miserable paralysis.
Additional Notes
Miserable mood conveys acute unhappiness or discomfort; rendered through visceral imagery, discordant sounds, and oppressive rhythm—e.g., urban poverty or illness poems; related to dejected, disconsolate, and despondent moods; more immediate and physical than melancholic.
Also Known As
Wretched Mournful Woeful Distressed Unhappy Disconsolate Dreich
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