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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Tumorous

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

“Tumorous” means having, resembling, or marked by a tumor: an abnormal swelling or growth in the body. Figuratively, it can describe something bloated, invasive, or dangerously accumulating.

Detailed Definition
In medical language, “tumorous” describes tissue affected by a tumor, whether benign or malignant. In poetry, the adjective may evoke the body’s unsettling vulnerability through images of swelling, hidden growth, pain, and invasion. It can also be used figuratively for cities, institutions, grief, wealth, or violence that expands unnaturally and threatens what surrounds it. Its harsh sound and clinical associations make it useful for Gothic, confessional, political, and illness-centered poems concerned with decay, fear, and loss of control.
Example
Example in poetry:
Tumorous growth choking the ancient vine (William Wordsworth, "The Excursion"); A tumorous swell upon the face of the cliff (Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Prometheus Unbound"); Tumorous pride inflating the tyrant's chest (Lord Byron, "Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte"); Tumorous clouds gathering on the horizon (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"); Tumorous decay eating at the castle wall (Edgar Allan Poe, "The Fall of the House of Usher")
Additional Notes
"Tumorous" means having, forming, or resembling a tumor—an abnormal, uncontrolled growth within bodily tissue. Figuratively, poets use tumorous imagery to describe hidden evils, expanding corruption, or toxic secrets that swell unchecked within a character, community, or state. Students should analyze how tumorous imagery conveys a sense of invasive, self-generated destruction that feeds on its host, heightening themes of doom and internal rot. Related terms include swollen, neoplastic, turgid, and hypertrophic.
Also Known As
Tumoral Swollen Neoplastic Growth-Bearing tumid
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