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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Belfry

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 church tower or structure holding bells, often marking time, prayer, warning, or community life.

Detailed Definition
The belfry is a strong poetic image because it gives architecture a voice. In Spanish poems or Spanish settings, it may rise above a village, cathedral, monastery, or plaza, sending bells across fields and streets. It marks sacred time, civic rhythm, death, festival, danger, and remembrance. The belfry often joins earth and heaven: stone below, sound above. Its bells make place audible, turning a town’s history and faith into recurring music.
Example
Example in poetry:
The belfry tolls ancient hours across the Castilian plain, calling the poet to solitude; In the village belfry the poet hears echoes of chivalry and forgotten battles; Belfry bells ring through the poet's memory of medieval Spain's devout rhythm; The lone belfry stands sentinel in verses mourning time's passage over stone; Poets use the belfry to mark the sacred pause between labor and prayer in rural Spain; From the belfry the poet draws imagery of faith rising above the meseta's silence.
Additional Notes
Belfry towers mark time, faith, and warning in Spanish villages, appearing in poetry as voices of community or solitude; their peals blend with daily life, inspiring meditations on mortality. Usage: pair with Angelus or campanile for auditory imagery. Enhances rural Castilian or Andalusian scenes; connects to Gothic cathedral and plaza life, illustrating how religious architecture structures poetic time and social order.
Other Meanings of “Belfry”
Also Known As
Bell tower Bell cote Campanile Tower
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