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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Angelus

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

A Christian prayer traditionally marked by bells, often heard at morning, noon, or evening.

Detailed Definition
The Angelus enters poetry through sound, ritual, and rural time. In Spanish settings, its bell recalls peasants pausing in fields, towns gathered around church towers, and faith woven into daily labour. It can suggest humility, memory, submission, consolation, or social order. Poets use the Angelus because it joins the visible landscape to invisible belief, turning a moment of ordinary time into a pause of reverence, melancholy, or communal identity.
Example
Example in poetry:
At the hour of Angelus, the poet paused in the cloister to reflect on faith's gentle call; The bells ring Angelus over the Spanish fields, drawing the soul to prayer and verse; In the twilight Angelus, Lorca-like imagery blends devotion with earthly longing; Angelus tolls across the meseta, inspiring meditations on time and divinity in poetry; The Angelus bell tolls across Spanish fields calling poets to reflect on faith and labor; At Angelus hour the poet contemplates the quiet devotion of rural Spain.
Additional Notes
Angelus bells provide rhythmic markers of daily devotion in Spanish poetry, symbolizing order, faith, and the intersection of sacred and secular time; heard across rural landscapes, they appear in contemplative or nostalgic works. Usage: integrate with cloister or cathedral bells for layered soundscapes of prayer amid labor. Enhances themes of community, mortality, or lost tradition; connects to Semana Santa and monastic life, offering students insight into Catholicism's pervasive influence on Spanish temporal and poetic rhythms.
Also Known As
Angelus bell Angelus prayer Ave Maria bells
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