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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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threshing floor

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 threshing floor is a hard, level surface on which harvested grain is beaten or trampled to separate it from stalks and husks.

Detailed Definition
The threshing floor is a prepared open or covered space where grain is processed after harvest, often with flails, animal hooves, sledges, or winnowing tools. It was once a centre of communal labour and seasonal activity. In poetry, it symbolises testing, separation, judgement, and transformation because valuable grain emerges from violent beating and discarded husks. Biblical scenes give the threshing floor associations with covenant, revelation, and divine decision, while its dust and rhythm provide vivid agricultural atmosphere.
Example
Example in poetry:
A threshing floor can serve as a scene of communal labour, dust, noise, and harvest activity; Because grain is separated there, it may symbolise judgement and purification; Biblical poetry may present the threshing floor as a place of revelation or divine decision; An abandoned threshing floor can evoke lost customs and the silence following agricultural change.
Additional Notes
A threshing floor is a hard, level space where harvested cereal is beaten, trampled, or crushed to release the grain. It may be outdoors where wind assists winnowing or inside a barn. Biblical and ancient poetry often treats it as a place of labour, judgement, revelation, or communal gathering. Students should connect its physical function with metaphors of separation and testing. Related terms include threshing, flail, grain, chaff, winnowing, sheaf, and harvest.
Also Known As
threshing ground
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