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 O

Oat

Food And Drink
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 grain associated with rural labor, endurance, and plain nourishment. It can evoke fields, porridge, animal feed, or hardy northern landscapes.

Detailed Definition
Oats give poetry a texture of workaday sustenance and resilient agriculture. Unlike more luxurious foods, they often suggest modest households, cold climates, and meals prepared for strength rather than display. Their pale fields moving in wind can provide an image of collective motion or seasonal change, while a bowl of oats may signify thrift, childhood, or survival through scarcity. Poets may use oat imagery to honor ordinary labor and the quiet dignity of being fed.
Example
Example in poetry:
William Wordsworth often finds poetic significance in rural life, a useful model for writing about oats as part of an inhabited landscape; "Oats whispered silver along the ditch" gives grain sound and light; "His breakfast oats steamed in the cold blue kitchen" uses a plain meal to establish poverty, routine, or comfort; A poet may let wind flatten an oat field to show how weather writes across the land
Additional Notes
Oat evokes hardy fields, porridge, and agricultural labor rather than lavish feasting. Its plainness can support themes of endurance and rural identity, while oat fields may provide visual movement through wind and season.
Also Known As
Cereal Grain Oatmeal Grain Avena Husked Oat
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