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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truss

Archaic Terms
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

An English unit of weight varying by commodity: 56 pounds for old hay, 60 for new hay, 36 for straw; used in agricultural commerce.

Detailed Definition
The truss measured hay and straw, varying by type and condition: old hay truss weighed 56 pounds, new hay 60 pounds, straw 36 pounds. This agricultural measure reflected practical bundling for transport and sale. In poetry concerning farming, harvest, or rural economy, truss provides authentic agricultural measurement. The term evokes haymaking, farm labor, and agricultural commerce. Poets employed trusses when treating rural themes, harvest time, or farm economy, adding specific measurement that grounds descriptions in agricultural practice and connects to the seasonal rhythms and material realities of farming life.
Example
Example in poetry:
In agricultural poetry, "a truss of hay for the horses" grounds rural labor in specific measurement; Historical verse about farming might describe "trusses stacked in the barn, winter fodder counted and secured"; Poetry about harvest work uses "they cut, dried, and bundled hay into trusses, labor measured in 56-pound increments"; In verse about agricultural commerce, "hay sold by the truss, price varying by quality and season"; Modern farming poetry might contrast "grandfather sold hay by the truss; I sell by the ton in plastic-wrapped bales"; Poetry about rural tradition describes "the art of bundling the perfect truss—tight enough to transport, loose enough to stay dry."
Additional Notes
The truss's commodity-specific variation (old hay 56 lbs, new hay 60 lbs, straw 36 lbs) shows practical agricultural measurement thinking. Students should understand that truss represented bundled, transportable quantity—hay bound for handling and transport. The weight variation reflected different densities and moisture content—new hay heavier than old, hay heavier than straw. In poetry about farming, harvest, or agricultural labor, truss provides authentic measurement connecting quantity to practical bundling. Understanding that truss measured what could be bundled and carried helps students appreciate measurement's practical origins—units developed for actual use, not abstract standardization. The term appears in contexts of hay harvest, winter fodder preparation, and agricultural commerce. Students should recognize that commodity-specific measurements reflected real material differences requiring different handling. Related terms include bale (modern hay measurement), tod (wool bundle), and other agricultural quantities. For students writing about traditional farming, hay harvest, or agricultural labor, truss adds authentic vocabulary. The truss can represent agricultural work, seasonal rhythms (haying season), or the physical labor of bundling and transporting fodder. The term evokes hayfields, barn storage, and traditional farming practice.
Also Known As
truss bundle hay truss sheave rafter
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