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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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garner

Archaic Terms
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 granary or storehouse for grain; also the act of gathering or collecting something, especially for storage and future use.

Detailed Definition
Garner derives from Old French "gernier" (granary) and functions in poetry both as a noun (a storehouse) and a verb (to collect and store). As a verb it has escaped its agricultural origins entirely and become a general term for accumulating anything of value: one garners praise, experience, or knowledge. In pastoral and georgic verse, garner as a noun appears alongside granary and barn to describe the built infrastructure of food security—the buildings that make civilization possible by carrying surplus across seasons. The verb form, when used in pastoral contexts, emphasizes the intentionality of harvest: to garner is not merely to collect but to select and store with purpose, implying the wisdom to preserve today's abundance for tomorrow's need.
Example
Example in poetry:
Keats's "To Autumn" is structured around the idea of garnering — the season as the time of gathering and storing, the year's abundance collected against future need; A poet might write "she garnered small mercies the way her grandmother had garnered grain — carefully, with gratitude, knowing that winter was patient and longer than summer's confidence"; The verb "to garner" has so thoroughly escaped its agricultural origins that modern poets can use it in either its literal or extended sense — to garner praise, experience, or evidence — while the agricultural resonance remains available for those who reach for it; In poems about memory and the selective preservation of experience, garner serves as the organizing metaphor — the memory as granary, the mind as the storehouse where the year's significant moments are laid up against the darkness of forgetting; The Georgian poets of the early twentieth century, consciously reaching back to an agricultural England disappearing before industrialization, use garner and granary imagery to locate their poetry within a tradition of harvest and preservation; The image of the well-stocked garner — the granary full at harvest time — represents in pastoral poetry the ideal outcome of the year's labor, the proof that patience and effort have been rewarded.
Additional Notes
Garner is particularly useful for students because it demonstrates the process by which an agricultural term becomes a general-purpose verb while retaining (for attentive readers and writers) its agricultural resonance. "To garner" meaning "to collect and store" has entirely escaped its granary origins in everyday usage, but poets who deploy the verb in pastoral contexts can reactivate the agricultural meaning to create a double effect. Students should practice tracing the agricultural resonance in contexts where "garner" appears to be used in its extended metaphorical sense: what is gained by reading "she garnered experience" against the background of the granary? The noun form (a garner as a storehouse) is rarer in modern usage and tends to appear in explicitly archaic or historical poetic contexts. Students should note the word's relationship to "granary" (both ultimately from Latin "granum," grain) and consider whether the two words carry different connotations despite their common origin. Related terms: granary, chaff, thresh, winnow, rick.
Also Known As
granary storehouse grain store barn reap
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