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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Bell tower

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

Campanario, the tall tower housing church bells that call the faithful.

Detailed Definition
Dominating Spanish skylines from villages to cathedrals. Poets use bell towers for themes of time, faith, warning, and celebration; their peals mark births, deaths, and festivals, evoking communal memory and the vertical aspiration of the spirit reaching toward heaven.
Example
Example in poetry:
The bell tower's iron voice tolls through the poet's meditation on time and faith; Poets climb the bell tower seeking panoramic stanzas of village life below; Bell tower chimes mark the rhythm of daily verses in ancient Spanish towns; In bell tower shadows the bard weaves stories of weddings, funerals, and daily grace; The bell tower stands sentinel inspiring hymns of endurance through centuries; Poets use bell tower peals to punctuate lines of communal memory and prayer.
Additional Notes
Bell tower (campanario) dominates Spanish skylines, calling to prayer and marking community life from medieval times onward. Poets leverage its height for panoramic views or its peals for temporal structure; integrate with monastery bells or Giralda for sacred soundscapes, using it to frame daily cycles, warnings, or communal memory in narrative or lyric forms.
Also Known As
Campanario Torre de campanas Campanario de iglesia Belfry Campanile
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