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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barn

Farming
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 barn is a farm building used to store crops, hay, tools, or machinery, and sometimes to shelter livestock.

Detailed Definition
A barn is one of the central structures of a traditional farm, serving as a place of storage, labour, protection, and gathering. Its beams, lofts, doors, dust, and shadows provide poets with richly atmospheric imagery. In verse, a barn may represent abundance after harvest, refuge from weather, rural continuity, or neglect and decay. Empty barns often suggest vanished ways of life, while full barns convey provision, communal effort, and the cycle by which summer labour sustains winter survival.
Example
Example in poetry:
A dark barn filled with dust and shafts of sunlight can create an atmosphere of memory and secrecy; A full barn may symbolise abundance, preparation, and protection against winter; An abandoned barn can suggest rural decline and the disappearance of traditional farming; Poets may set childhood adventures or secret meetings in a hay-scented barn.
Additional Notes
A barn is both a practical farm building and a highly atmospheric poetic setting. Its rafters, shadows, dust, swallows, stored hay, and shafts of light can evoke memory, secrecy, childhood, shelter, or neglected labour. A full barn commonly suggests provision and successful harvest, while an empty or collapsing barn may represent rural decline. Students should note what is stored or sheltered there. Related terms include hayloft, granary, stable, byre, rick, threshing floor, and farmstead.
Also Known As
garner granary laith
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