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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cart

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 cart is a two-wheeled or four-wheeled vehicle used on farms to carry crops, tools, manure, or people.

Detailed Definition
The farm cart is a simple transport vehicle traditionally drawn by horses or oxen and used to move harvests, supplies, and workers. Its wheels, ruts, creaking timber, and slow pace are recurring features of rural poetry. A cart may suggest humble labour, seasonal movement, or an older rhythm of life governed by distance and animal strength. Loaded carts signify abundance and completion, while broken or abandoned carts can symbolise poverty, obsolescence, or the disappearance of traditional farming.
Example
Example in poetry:
A harvest cart piled with sheaves can represent abundance and completed labour; The creaking of a cart can provide auditory imagery and establish a slow rural rhythm; A cart stuck in mud may symbolise hardship or frustrated progress; An abandoned cart beside a ruined farmstead can evoke obsolescence and loss.
Additional Notes
A cart is a basic farm vehicle used to carry crops, tools, manure, animals, or people. In older poetry it is usually drawn by a horse or ox, and its creaking wheels can establish a slow, measured rural rhythm. A loaded harvest cart suggests abundance and completed labour; a broken or empty cart may signify poverty, abandonment, or change. Students should distinguish a cart from a waggon or dray. Related terms include axle, wheel, horse, ox, track, load, harvest, and transport.
Also Known As
farm cart tumbrel wain
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