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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farmer

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 farmer is a person who manages or works land to grow crops or raise animals.

Detailed Definition
The farmer is a central figure in rural literature, joining intimate knowledge of land and weather with the economic necessity of producing food. Poetry may portray farmers as independent, enduring, conservative, exploited, prosperous, or vulnerable to forces beyond their control. Their sowing, tending, and harvesting readily become metaphors for human effort and consequence. The farmer can embody continuity and stewardship, but may also represent ownership, social hierarchy, and the difficult boundary between working with nature and mastering it.
Example
Example in poetry:
A farmer reading the sky can represent practical wisdom and dependence upon weather; The farmer sowing seed may symbolise hope, patience, and investment in the future; An indebted farmer can reveal the economic hardship beneath an attractive rural landscape; An elderly farmer walking inherited fields may embody continuity, memory, and attachment to place.
Additional Notes
The farmer may be an owner, tenant, manager, or practical worker, so the surrounding social context matters. Poetry can portray farmers as patient stewards, shrewd businesspeople, victims of weather and debt, or representatives of inherited custom. Their repeated acts of sowing and reaping readily become metaphors for effort and consequence. Students should not assume that every farmer owns the land. Related terms include tenant farmer, landowner, farmhand, husbandry, harvest, livestock, and cultivation.
Also Known As
agriculturist husbandman grower tiller ploughman
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