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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Muleteer

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

A person who drives or leads mules, especially on roads, mountain passes, and rural routes.

Detailed Definition
The muleteer is a humble but vivid figure in Spanish poetry, bringing sound, movement, labour, and road life into the landscape. With bells, tassels, dust, shouted commands, and laden animals, muleteers connect towns, inns, fields, and mountain passes. Poets use them to evoke pre-modern travel, folk culture, hardship, commerce, and the music of ordinary movement. They make Spain feel lived-in, not merely picturesque or monumental.
Example
Example in poetry:
The muleteer guides the poet's traveler along dusty caminos of La Mancha adventure; Muleteer inspires verses of humble labor and roadside tales; In the muleteer the bard finds Spain's folk hero of endurance; Muleteer awakens imagery of bells, packs, and starlit journeys; Poets evoke the muleteer to ground epic quests in everyday Spanish life; The muleteer's song accompanies the poet's ballads of road and resilience.
Additional Notes
Muleteer guides rural journeys; folk figure populating roads in picaresque and travel verse. Symbol of rustic life and movement. Use for pastoral or adventure themes. Study Spanish picaresque novels. Enhances local color. Effective for depicting travel or labor. Pair with imagery of animals and paths.
Also Known As
Mule driver
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