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

Home › Glossary › Letter N

Nerve

Anatomy
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 fiber that carries signals through the body, often used to suggest sensation, fear, sensitivity, or courage.

Detailed Definition
Poets use nerve to describe both the physical pathways of sensation and the emotional capacity to endure difficult experience. Frayed nerves can represent anxiety, overstimulation, or grief, while finding one's nerve can mean gathering courage. Because nerves transmit pain and touch, they make useful images for a speaker's responsiveness to the world. A poem may imagine nerves as wires, roots, sparks, or threads, linking private sensation to technological, natural, or social networks.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Every nerve became a listening wire” uses nerve as a metaphor for heightened anxiety; A poet might write “the cold found every nerve in my fingers” to make weather feel physically immediate; “Her nerves rang after the argument” turns an invisible bodily system into audible emotional tension; “Hope touched a nerve beneath the old scar” suggests that memory can cause a sudden, involuntary feeling
Additional Notes
A nerve may be literal or figurative. Poets use “raw nerve” for intense sensitivity and “nerve” for boldness, linking the body’s signal system to fear, pain, and courage.
Also Known As
Sinew
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