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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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Andalusian skies

Spanish
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 bright, warm, expansive skies of southern Spain, often linked with beauty, longing, and sensual atmosphere.

Detailed Definition
Andalusian skies are a poetic shorthand for southern light: wide, blue, radiant, and softened by heat or evening colour. They suggest openness, languor, romance, and release from harsher northern moods. In poems about Spain, such skies often contrast with sombre history, bringing warmth to ruined palaces, orange groves, pilgrimage roads, and city squares. They turn landscape into emotion, making atmosphere itself seem musical and enchanted.
Example
Example in poetry:
The poet gazed at Andalusian skies, vast and blue, evoking Lorca's visions of passion and fate; Under Andalusian skies the olive trees stand sentinel over ancient stories; In verses, Andalusian skies bleed with the colors of sunset and gypsy fires; The clear Andalusian skies inspired hymns to freedom in the heart of Spain; Andalusian skies, infinite and charged with duende, call forth the poet's deepest song; Poets paint Andalusian skies as canvases where sorrow and joy dance in eternal light.
Additional Notes
Andalusian skies evoke vast, luminous expanses that poets employ to convey sensuality, freedom, or impending storm; often described as deep blue or golden at dusk, they mirror emotional states in Lorca-inspired verse. Tip: contrast their brightness with dark duende or human passion below. Valuable for setting Mediterranean atmosphere, suggesting infinity or ephemerality; links to olive groves, siesta, and Costa del Sol, enriching imagery of light as both blessing and revealer of harsh truths in Spanish lyric tradition.
Also Known As
Southern skies Andalusian heavens
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