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

Home › Glossary › Letter B

Burqa

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

Burqa is a local wind in the Persian Gulf region, a sudden violent squall associated with thunderstorms and intense dust, often occurring during spring and summer.

Detailed Definition
The burqa, named for the heavy dust veil it casts, is a less common but formidable wind, often appearing without warning. It can capsize small boats and reduce visibility to near zero. In Gulf maritime and desert poetry, the burqa represents the capriciousness of nature, the fragility of navigation, and the sudden loss of orientation. Its shroud-like dust mirrors the concealment of identity or the veiling of truth, making it a potent image for themes of revelation, illusion, and the unexpected disruptions that reshape lives.
Example
Example in poetry:
Burqa|Burqa is a local wind in the Persian Gulf region, a sudden violent squall associated with thunderstorms and intense dust, often occurring during spring and summer.|The burqa, named for the heavy dust veil it casts, is a less common but formidable wind, often appearing without warning. It can capsize small boats and reduce visibility to near zero. In Gulf maritime and desert poetry, the burqa represents the capriciousness of nature, the fragility of navigation, and the sudden loss of orientation. Its shroud-like dust mirrors the concealment of identity or the veiling of truth, making it a potent image for themes of revelation, illusion, and unexpected disruptions.;
Additional Notes
The burqa is a sudden, violent squall that occurs in the Persian Gulf region, named for the heavy dust veil it casts, like a shroud over the landscape. It is a local, formidable wind, often appearing without warning during spring and summer thunderstorms, capable of capsizing small boats and reducing visibility to near zero. In Gulf maritime and desert poetry, the burqa represents the capriciousness of nature, the fragility of navigation, and the sudden loss of orientation in a vast, featureless environment. Its shroud-like dust is a potent metaphor for the concealment of identity, the veiling of truth, or the obscuring of familiar landmarks. Poets can use the burqa to explore themes of revelation and illusion, the sudden disruptions that reshape lives, and the tension between what is seen and what is hidden. Its name carries a cultural and geographic specificity that grounds verse in the unique environment of the Arabian Gulf, making it a vivid, resonant image for moments of crisis and transformation.
Also Known As
Afghan dust storm black wind enveloping gale
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