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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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Buran

Winds
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

Buran is a fierce, cold, and often snow-laden easterly or northeasterly wind that sweeps across the steppes of Russia and Central Asia, known for blinding blizzards.

Detailed Definition
The buran is the Siberian and Central Asian winter storm wind, capable of reducing visibility to zero and causing deadly exposure. It is a defining feature of the endless steppe. In Russian and Tatar poetry, the buran is a force of elemental despair, the howling ghost of the plains. It symbolises exile, the erasure of path and identity, and the relentless cruelty of winter. Yet its wild beauty also inspires awe, representing the untamable spirit of the steppe, the fury of nature that humbles all human pretension.
Example
Example in poetry:
Buran|Buran is a fierce, cold, and often snow-laden easterly or northeasterly wind that sweeps across the steppes of Russia and Central Asia, known for blinding blizzards.|The buran is the Siberian and Central Asian winter storm wind, capable of reducing visibility to zero and causing deadly exposure. It is a defining feature of the endless steppe. In Russian and Tatar poetry, the buran is a force of elemental despair, the howling ghost of the plains. It symbolizes exile, the erasure of path and identity, and the relentless cruelty of winter. Yet its wild beauty also inspires awe, representing the untamable spirit of the steppe, the fury of nature that humbles all human pretension.;
Additional Notes
The buran is a fierce, cold, and often snow-laden wind that sweeps across the steppes of Russia and Central Asia, a winter storm of legendary ferocity. It is capable of reducing visibility to zero, causing deadly exposure, and erasing all paths in the vast, featureless plains. In Russian and Tatar poetry, the buran is a force of elemental despair, the howling ghost of the steppe, a symbol of exile, the erasure of identity, and the relentless cruelty of winter. Yet its wild, untamed beauty also inspires awe, representing the unassailable power of nature that humbles all human pretension. Poets can use the buran to evoke the sublime terror of the Siberian landscape, the struggle for survival, and the profound isolation of the individual against the elements. Its blank, white fury can also suggest a purification through suffering, a tabula rasa that strips away all but the essential. The buran is a wind of extremes, a force that tests the limits of human endurance and offers a stark, unforgettable image of nature's absolute power.
Also Known As
Central Asian storm Kazakh blizzard steppe gale
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