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 L

landowner

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 landowner is a person or institution that legally possesses farmland or other land.

Detailed Definition
The landowner occupies a position of authority within rural society, controlling access, tenancy, cultivation, and often the livelihoods of others. In poetry, this figure may represent stewardship and continuity, but also privilege, absenteeism, enclosure, and unequal power. The term helps distinguish ownership from the labour of farmers, tenants, and farmhands. Poems concerned with eviction, rent, inheritance, or social justice often use the landowner to reveal how an apparently peaceful countryside is shaped by law, wealth, and contested rights.
Example
Example in poetry:
A wealthy landowner overlooking broad fields can represent privilege and social power; An absentee landowner may symbolise indifference to tenants and labourers; A generous landowner can be portrayed as a responsible steward of community and countryside; Disputes with a landowner can introduce themes of rent, eviction, enclosure, and unequal access to land.
Additional Notes
A landowner possesses land but may not personally farm it, so the term should be distinguished from farmer, tenant, and labourer. In poetry, landowners can represent stewardship and continuity or privilege, enclosure, rent, eviction, and absentee control. Their role often reveals the economic structure beneath a rural landscape. Students should ask who works the land and who benefits from it. Related terms include landlord, estate, tenant farmer, lease, rent, inheritance, and property.
Also Known As
landlord landed proprietor freeholder laird
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