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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Numbness

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

Loss or reduction of sensation in part of the body. In poetry it often symbolises emotional detachment, shock, or the dulling of feeling.

Detailed Definition
Numbness occurs when nerves fail to transmit normal sensations, leaving an area of the body without feeling. It can arise from injury, cold, or neurological disturbance. In literary language the term frequently describes emotional states in which feelings seem temporarily suspended. Poets often use numbness to portray grief, shock, or exhaustion that dulls the capacity to respond to the world, suggesting a protective stillness that follows overwhelming experience.
Example
Example in poetry:
The cold caused numbness in his frozen fingers; Poets describe the numbness of grief after loss; She felt a numbness spread through her body; The shock resulted in a temporary emotional numbness; He rubbed his hands to restore feeling from numbness; Numbness is a defense mechanism against pain.
Additional Notes
Numbness refers to loss of physical sensation. In poetry it frequently symbolises emotional detachment or shock following trauma. A numb heart or numb mind suggests inability to feel joy or grief fully. The imagery conveys psychological defence against overwhelming experience.
Also Known As
Loss of Feeling Insensibility Shock
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