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.

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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harvest

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

Harvest is the gathering of ripe crops, or the season in which that gathering takes place.

Detailed Definition
Harvest is the culmination of the agricultural year, when months of sowing, weather, and labour are tested in the gathering of crops. It is associated with abundance, urgency, celebration, gratitude, and anxiety about loss. In poetry, harvest readily symbolises fulfilment, maturity, judgement, death, and the consequences of earlier actions. Religious and moral verse often presents life as a season of growth followed by a final reaping, while pastoral poetry delights in the colours, sounds, communal work, and plenty of the fields.
Example
Example in poetry:
Harvest can symbolise the fulfilment of labour and the arrival of maturity; A joyful harvest scene may celebrate community, gratitude, and abundance; A failed harvest can represent famine, judgement, or shattered hope; Poets often use harvest metaphorically for the final consequences gathered from actions performed earlier.
Additional Notes
Harvest refers both to the act of gathering ripe crops and to the season or yield produced. It is the culmination of sowing, tending, weather, and labour, so poets use it for fulfilment, maturity, abundance, judgement, and consequence. A failed harvest can carry social, political, or spiritual meaning. Students should notice whether the word names an activity, a time of year, or a result. Related terms include reaping, crop, yield, sheaf, threshing, autumn, gleaning, and harvest festival.
Other Meanings of “harvest”
Also Known As
ingathering crop gathering reaping harvest-time
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