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

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plough

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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 plough is a farm tool or machine that cuts, turns, and prepares soil for sowing.

Detailed Definition
The plough opens furrows and turns the earth, burying weeds and exposing fresh soil before seed is sown. Drawn historically by people or animals and later by tractors, it is one of the central implements of agrarian life. In poetry the plough carries ancient associations with labour, fertility, settlement, war interrupted for peace, and the passage of seasons. Its furrow may resemble writing across the land, while its cutting share symbolises both necessary violence and the hopeful preparation from which future harvests arise.
Example
Example in poetry:
The plough opened dark furrows across the field before the spring sowing; In poetry, the plough often represents labour, fertility, settlement, and hope for a future harvest; The blade writes long brown lines across the earth like a pen upon paper; A broken plough may symbolise abandoned land, war, or the collapse of rural continuity.
Additional Notes
The plough is central to agricultural poetry because it marks the beginning of cultivation and the preparation for sowing. Its blade cuts and turns soil, creating furrows that poets often compare with writing across the land. The tool may symbolise labour, fertility, peace, settlement, hope, or human alteration of nature. Abandoned ploughs can suggest war or rural decline. Related terms include harrow, furrow, sowing, field, soil, oxen, horse, tractor, cultivation, harvest, fertility, settlement, labour, and the transformation of earth into livelihood.
Other Meanings of “plough”
Also Known As
plow cultivator
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