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

Home › Glossary › Letter F

fodder

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

Fodder is food grown or stored for farm animals, especially hay, straw, grain, or silage.

Detailed Definition
Fodder sustains livestock when pasture is poor or unavailable, making it essential to the winter survival and productivity of a farm. The term includes dried, fresh, and preserved feed, and therefore connects fields, barns, animals, and seasonal planning. In poetry, fodder may signify humble nourishment, preparation, dependence, or the practical economy beneath pastoral beauty. It can also become a harsher metaphor for people treated as expendable material, especially in phrases suggesting that lives are consumed by war or industry.
Example
Example in poetry:
Hay stored as fodder can represent prudent preparation for winter; Scarce fodder during drought may symbolise hunger and desperation; Carrying fodder to animals can illustrate the farmer's responsibility and care; Used metaphorically, people called fodder may be shown as expendable material consumed by war or industry.
Additional Notes
Fodder is feed prepared or gathered for livestock rather than food that animals graze directly from pasture. It may include hay, straw, silage, roots, or grain. In poetry, storing fodder suggests prudent preparation for winter, while shortage indicates drought, poverty, or neglect. The word also has a figurative use for people treated as disposable material, especially in war. Related terms include forage, hay, silage, manger, livestock, pasture, feed, and winter store.
Also Known As
feed animal feed forage provender haycocks
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