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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dray

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 dray is a low, strong cart used for carrying heavy loads, traditionally drawn by horses.

Detailed Definition
A dray is a robust, often flat-bodied vehicle designed to transport bulky goods such as hay, grain, barrels, or timber. Before motor transport, horse-drawn drays were common on farms and in market towns. In poetry, the dray contributes images of weight, strength, creaking movement, and patient animal labour. It may represent commerce between countryside and town, the burden of harvest, or a vanished working landscape. A slow dray can also establish a measured, old-fashioned rhythm within a rural scene.
Example
Example in poetry:
A horse-drawn dray carrying grain can evoke the heavy transport work of an older countryside; Its slow progress may establish a measured rhythm in a narrative poem; A brewer's dray can connect barley farming with village trade and celebration; A broken dray may symbolise burden, poverty, or the end of animal-powered transport.
Additional Notes
A dray is a low, strongly built cart or waggon designed for heavy loads and traditionally drawn by horses. It is often associated with barrels, sacks, timber, hay, or goods moving between farm, brewery, and market. In poetry, its weight and slow progress may suggest endurance, commerce, or burden. The word has an old-fashioned character and can help establish historical setting. Related terms include cart, waggon, draught horse, load, axle, brewery, market, and transport.
Also Known As
dray cart dray waggon
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