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

Home › Glossary › Letter U

Ulcerous

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

Affected by or resembling open, corrosive sores; used in dark, satirical, or war poetry to convey corruption and physical decay.

Detailed Definition
Ulcerous refers to a condition of painful sores that resist easy healing and may eat into flesh or tissue. Poets can use it literally for bodily suffering or figuratively for grief, resentment, poverty, and social damage that remain raw over time. An ulcerous city or conscience suggests injury that has become chronic rather than passing. Its harsh sound and medical specificity lend force to poems concerned with wounds that persist beneath public composure.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Ulcerous sores marked the beggar’s feet,” using ulcerous to describe painful open wounds; “Ulcerous smoke rose from the battlefield” makes the landscape seem diseased and injured; A political poem may call injustice “an ulcerous stain upon the nation,” stressing harm that festers; “The ulcerous moon hung raw above the roofs” creates a disturbing image of a wounded sky
Additional Notes
Marked by ulcers or raw, eroding sores. Poetic use may be literal or figurative, suggesting corrosive pain, social injury, or inward spiritual damage.
Also Known As
Ulcerated Ulcerative
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