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.

After the death of my mother, 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.

My wife and I are simplifying our days. The server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the quieter life we want.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the 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.

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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Psycho-sensory Imagery

Imagery
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

Imagery that blends psychological states with sensory perception.

Detailed Definition
Psycho-sensory Imagery merges inner emotion with external sensation—“the sky wept with me,” “walls closing in”—to externalize mental landscapes; common in confessional and surrealist poetry, it reveals how perception is filtered through mood, trauma, or desire, making the psyche visible through sensory metaphor.
Example
Example in poetry:
The color blue tastes like winter mint; Thunder smells like burnt copper; Her voice feels like velvet on the skin; Silence has the texture of thick wool; Anger glows red behind closed eyes; Music drips like honey down the spine
Additional Notes
Psycho-sensory Imagery blends psychological states with sensory perception—e.g., “anxiety tastes metallic”; overlaps with synesthesia but emphasizes emotional distortion of senses; central to confessional and trauma poetry; differs from emotive imagery by making the mind alter sensory input; poets like Sylvia Plath (“the bell jar”) use it to render mental illness with visceral immediacy
Also Known As
Cross-Sensory Psychological Imagery Emotion-Filtered Perception Imagery
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