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

oats

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

Oats are a cereal crop grown for human food, animal feed, and straw.

Detailed Definition
Oats thrive in cool, moist climates and have long been important in northern farming, especially as porridge, meal, and feed for horses and livestock. Their loose seed heads and pale fields contribute distinctive movement to rural description. In poetry, oats may signify plain nourishment, hardiness, frugality, and regional identity. They often belong to working landscapes rather than luxurious abundance. Sowing or harvesting oats can evoke dependable routine, while poor oat crops may suggest hunger, bad weather, or the vulnerability of marginal farms.
Example
Example in poetry:
Oats moving in a northern wind can create a pale, restless landscape; A bowl of oats may symbolise plain nourishment, thrift, and rural simplicity; Oats fed to horses can connect crop farming with animal labour; A failed oat harvest may represent bad weather, hunger, and hardship on marginal land.
Additional Notes
Oats are a hardy cereal particularly associated with cool, moist climates and northern agriculture. They may be used for porridge, oatcakes, livestock feed, and horse fodder, while the straw has additional farm uses. In poetry, oats can evoke plain nourishment, thrift, regional identity, working horses, and marginal land. Related terms include cereal, grain, oatmeal, fodder, horse, harvest, sheaf, threshing, straw, and croft.
Also Known As
common oat cultivated oat
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