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.

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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Mediterranean light

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

The clear, warm, intense light associated with Spain’s eastern and southern coasts.

Detailed Definition
Mediterranean light is a poetic atmosphere rather than a single object. In Spanish poems, it can illuminate white walls, sea, olive leaves, tiles, plazas, and dry hills with a brilliance that seems both physical and emotional. It suggests clarity, sensuality, heat, antiquity, and exposure. Poets use it to sharpen colour and mood, making landscape feel vivid, timeless, and alive. It often contrasts with northern mist or historical darkness.
Example
Example in poetry:
Mediterranean light bathes the poet's Costa del Sol imagery of white villages and azure sea; Mediterranean light inspires verses of clarity, warmth, and ancient harbors; In Mediterranean light the bard finds Spain's southern luminous soul; Mediterranean light awakens odes to olive groves and timeless siestas; Poets evoke Mediterranean light to capture Spain's radiant cultural essence; The Mediterranean light gilds the poet's metaphors of renewal and joy.
Additional Notes
Mediterranean light often suggests bright sun, sharp edges, pale stone, saturated color, and a clarity that can feel restorative or merciless. In coastal poetry, it may reveal landscape, history, bodies, or conflict rather than merely decorate a scene. Compare chiaroscuro, glare, and pastoral light. Study hint: specify what the light does to surfaces and vision; “harsh” or “golden” becomes stronger when tied to a material effect.
Also Known As
Southern light Mediterranean sunshine
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