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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

Home › Glossary › Letter L

Leveche

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

Leveche is a hot, dry, and dusty southeasterly wind that blows from North Africa across the Mediterranean to the eastern coast of Spain, similar to the sirocco but drier.

Detailed Definition
The leveche is the Spanish variant of the sirocco, often carrying Saharan dust and causing a sudden rise in temperature. It is most common in spring and autumn, bringing a haze that dulls the landscape. In Valencian and Catalan poetry, the leveche is a wind of maritime longing, linking Spain to the Maghreb. Its heat evokes Moorish heritage, the crossing of cultures, and the dreamy, oppressive weight of history. Poets use its dryness to represent emotional aridity, the burn of memory, and the persistent dust of ancestral ties.
Example
Example in poetry:
Leveche|Leveche is a hot, dry, and dusty southeasterly wind that blows from North Africa across the Mediterranean to the eastern coast of Spain, similar to the sirocco but drier.|The leveche is the Spanish variant of the sirocco, often carrying Saharan dust and causing a sudden rise in temperature. It is most common in spring and autumn, bringing a haze that dulls the landscape. In Valencian and Catalan poetry, the leveche is a wind of maritime longing, linking Spain to the Maghreb. Its heat evokes Moorish heritage, the crossing of cultures, and the dreamy, oppressive weight of history. Poets use its dryness to represent emotional aridity and the persistent dust of ancestral ties.;
Additional Notes
The leveche is a hot, dry, and dusty southeasterly wind that blows from North Africa across the Mediterranean to the eastern coast of Spain, a Spanish variant of the sirocco but drier. It carries Saharan dust and causes a sudden rise in temperature, most common in spring and autumn, bringing a haze that dulls the landscape. In Valencian and Catalan poetry, the leveche is a wind of maritime longing, linking Spain to the Maghreb and evoking Moorish heritage, cultural crossing, and the dreamy, oppressive weight of history. Poets can use the leveche to explore themes of hybrid identity, the heat of memory, and the persistent, dusty influence of the past on the present. Its dryness represents emotional aridity, the burn of nostalgia, and the heavy, inescapable burden of history that hangs in the air like a veil of Saharan dust.
Also Known As
hot southeaster Spanish sirocco African breath
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