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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Transference

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

The redirection of feelings from an earlier relationship onto someone in the present.

Detailed Definition
Transference occurs when an old attachment, fear, expectation, or conflict is unconsciously experienced through a new person. In poetry, a stranger may inherit a parent's voice, a lover may be mistaken for a rescuer, or a teacher may become the imagined judge of childhood. The term creates layered emotional time: the present encounter is real, yet it is haunted by another relationship whose unfinished meanings alter what the speaker sees and feels.
Example
Example in poetry:
In a poem about a therapist, a speaker might respond to the therapist as though they were a critical parent, illustrating transference; A grieving speaker may address a beloved through another person, transferring old feelings onto a new relationship; A dramatic monologue can reveal transference when the speaker treats a stranger as an enemy because the stranger resembles someone from the past; The poem can clarify transference by contrasting the new person’s actual behavior with the speaker’s inherited expectations.
Additional Notes
Transference occurs when feelings connected to an earlier relationship are unconsciously directed toward someone in the present. The term is common in psychotherapy, but poetry can portray it through mistaken resemblance, inherited expectations, or emotional reactions that seem larger than the moment.
Also Known As
Psychological Transference Transference Phenomenon Displacement Projection Metaphor Translatio
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