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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Garrote

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

An execution device historically used in Spain, associated with punishment, repression, and death.

Detailed Definition
The garrote is a grim poetic term, carrying the atmosphere of prison, state violence, secrecy, and fatal judgement. In Spanish contexts it may evoke authoritarian power, public punishment, or the darker side of law and order. Because it is stark and specific, poets use it sparingly for shock, historical weight, or moral accusation. It can stand for the machinery of repression, the body under power, and the silence that follows official violence.
Example
Example in poetry:
The garrote's shadow falls across the poet's protest against capital punishment's cruelty; In the garrote the bard finds dark symbol of Inquisition's lingering justice; Garrote inspires verses condemning state violence in modern Spanish light; Poets evoke the garrote to confront Spain's history of authoritarian ritual; The garrote awakens the poet to imagery of final breath and moral reckoning; In the garrote the Spanish poet discovers tension between law and humanity.
Additional Notes
Garrote symbolizes repressive justice; used in modern poetry to critique authoritarian past and capital punishment.
Also Known As
Garrote vil
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