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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Plague-Ridden

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

Overrun or devastated by plague or widespread disease. It suggests collective suffering and abandoned social order.

Detailed Definition
Plague-ridden presents disease not as a private ailment but as a condition that remakes an entire place. In poetry, a plague-ridden town may have silent streets, barred doors, emptied markets, tolling bells, and survivors estranged from one another. The phrase can also be figurative, applying the scale and terror of epidemic illness to violence, injustice, or despair. Its emphasis falls on saturation: the affliction seems to occupy every household and horizon.
Example
Example in poetry:
“The plague-ridden port kept its ships beyond the bay” establishes quarantine and communal fear; “Plague-ridden houses stared with boarded eyes” personifies abandoned buildings; A poet may write, “In the plague-ridden year, even birds seemed to mourn at a distance,” to show isolation; “Her plague-ridden thoughts multiplied after midnight” uses the phrase figuratively for invasive despair
Additional Notes
Plague-ridden emphasizes communal devastation rather than one patient’s illness. It can frame deserted streets, broken rituals, and the failure of social order.
Also Known As
Plague-Stricken Pestilence-Ridden
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