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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Vivacious

Mood
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

Describing a mood that is animated, charmingly energetic, and full of spirited liveliness, often evoking warmth and engagement.

Detailed Definition
Vivacious mood in poetry conveys infectious energy through sparkling rhythm, colorful imagery, and playful diction; it appears in celebration lyrics, courtship poems, or urban scenes—like some of Dickinson or Neruda—where the poet’s zest for life leaps off the page, transforming observation into a dance of words that celebrates human vitality and joy in connection.
Example
Example in poetry:
In “Song of Myself,” Whitman’s vivacious catalogues celebrate life’s abundance; In “Ode to a Nightingale,” Keats’ lush imagery conveys vivacious longing; Emily Dickinson’s “I taste a liquor never brewed” bursts with vivacious natural joy; In “The Tyger,” Blake’s hammering rhythm exudes vivacious creative energy; Mary Oliver’s “The Summer Day” ends with vivacious urgency about living; e.e. cummings’ “in Just-” captures vivacious childhood play in spring.
Additional Notes
Vivacious mood expresses lively, animated charm; signaled by sparkling rhythm, bright imagery, and playful diction—e.g., flirtation or spring poems; related to animated, exuberant, and buoyant moods; often personified in female figures in traditional verse.
Also Known As
Lively Animated Energetic Sparkling Bubbly
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