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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 H

hayfield

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 hayfield is a field of grass or herbage grown specifically to be cut and dried as hay.

Detailed Definition
A hayfield changes visibly through the season, from lush grass to cut swathes, drying rows, and finally a cleared expanse. It is therefore a natural stage for poems about labour, weather, time, and transformation. Before mechanisation, haymaking brought groups of workers together in an urgent summer task, and this social history often colours literary depictions. A hayfield may convey fragrance, heat, abundance, and romance, but rain on cut grass can introduce anxiety, loss, and dependence upon forces beyond human control.
Example
Example in poetry:
Workers cutting a hayfield can illustrate communal labour under summer heat; The scent and colour of a hayfield can create rich sensory imagery; Rain clouds above a cut hayfield may introduce urgency and anxiety; An empty hayfield after gathering can symbolise completion, exhaustion, or the swift passage of summer.
Additional Notes
A hayfield is deliberately managed for grass or herbage that will be cut, dried, and stored as hay. Its appearance changes rapidly from tall flowering grass to cut swathes, windrows, and bare stubble-like ground. This transformation makes it useful for poems about time, labour, weather, and transience. Rain after mowing introduces urgency and possible loss. Related terms include meadow, mowing, hay, windrow, rick, haymaking, scythe, mower, and harvest.
Also Known As
hay meadow mowing field
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