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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I 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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Thermo-tactile 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

Sensory imagery that evokes temperature through tactile sensation, such as “icy fingers” or “scorching breeze,” blending touch and thermal perception.

Detailed Definition
Thermo-tactile Imagery describes sensations of heat or cold as felt on the skin—“scorching wind,” “icy fingers”—to express emotional states like passion, isolation, or danger; by grounding abstract feelings in thermal experience, poets make inner conditions physically palpable and universally relatable.
Example
Example in poetry:
Sunlight baked the stones until they hissed; Ice numbed fingers into clumsy stones; Steam curled from the pavement after rain; Embers glowed warm against winter skin; Frostbite bit with invisible teeth; Desert wind seared like a branding iron
Additional Notes
Thermo-tactile Imagery combines temperature and touch—“searing cold,” “warm velvet”—to evoke visceral response; central to embodied and sensory poetry; differs from textural by emphasizing thermal sensation; use precise contrasts (fever/ice, sunburn/snow) for emotional impact; poets like Sylvia Plath use thermo-tactile imagery to render psychological states as physical extremes
Also Known As
Temperature-and-Touch Imagery Thermal-Tactile Imagery
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