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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Sorrow

Psychology
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 profound, persistent sadness, typically resulting from loss, disappointment, or existential grief; a deep emotional ache that pervades thought and mood.

Detailed Definition
Sorrow is poetry's most expansive emotional register, filling elegy, lament, and lyric. It flows through slow rhythms, minor keys, and images of rain, shadow, or fading. Poets give sorrow shape and dignity, making it universal. Sorrow invites readers into shared humanity, offering catharsis without easy consolation. It can be personal or collective, and its expression often becomes a bridge to resilience, memory, and hope.
Example
Example in poetry:
Sorrow in Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" where sorrow pervades; In John Milton's "Lycidas," sorrow is a theme; In W.H. Auden's "Funeral Blues," sorrow is personal; In contemporary poetry, sorrow is a universal emotion; In "The Waste Land," sorrow is a theme; In confessional poetry, sorrow is often expressed.
Additional Notes
Sorrow is poetry's most expansive emotional register, filling elegy, lament, and lyric through slow rhythms, minor keys, and images of rain, shadow, or fading. In teaching, distinguish sorrow from grief: sorrow is deep sadness, while grief is response to loss. Sorrow invites readers into shared humanity, offering catharsis without easy consolation. It can be personal or collective. Students should examine how poets use elegiac tone, imagery of decay, and slow, heavy rhythm to convey sorrow's universal, enduring weight.
Also Known As
Grief anguish heartache lament sadness Aching heart dole dolor Melancholy Mourning Pathos Regret woe bale ruth
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