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 M

mowing

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

Mowing is the cutting of grass, hay, or other low crops with a scythe, mower, or machine.

Detailed Definition
Mowing changes a living field into ordered swathes and begins the work of making hay or controlling pasture. Traditionally performed with rhythmic scythe strokes, it later became increasingly mechanised. In poetry, mowing can evoke summer heat, fragrance, muscular labour, and the fleeting nature of growth. The sound of blade or machine creates strong sensory atmosphere, while the cut field may symbolise mortality and time. Yet mowing also prepares renewal, since grass often rises again after being cut.
Example
Example in poetry:
The sweep of a scythe during mowing can create rhythmic visual imagery; Mowing a meadow may symbolise the cutting down of life at its fullest growth; The smell of newly mown grass can evoke summer, memory, and transience; Grass rising again after mowing may suggest resilience and renewal after suffering.
Additional Notes
Mowing is the cutting of grass or another low crop by scythe, mower, or machine. In haymaking it begins a sequence that includes drying, turning, forming windrows, and gathering. Poetry often draws upon the rhythm of scything, the scent of cut grass, and the sudden transformation of a living field. Mowing may symbolise mortality, but regrowth can suggest renewal. Related terms include scythe, hayfield, swathe, mower, grass, windrow, hay, and cutting.
Also Known As
grass cutting hay cutting haying
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