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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Wheat

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 cereal grain used chiefly for flour and bread. It symbolizes harvest, fertility, labor, wealth, and renewal.

Detailed Definition
Wheat fields give poets a broad visual language of gold, motion, and seasonal change. The crop bends under wind, stands in ordered rows, and is cut down at harvest, so it can represent both abundance and mortality. Since wheat becomes bread, it connects rural labor with urban tables and sacred ritual. Poems may celebrate its fertility, mourn famine or failed crops, or question the ownership of land whose wealth depends on workers' hands.
Example
Example in poetry:
“Wheat bowed under the wind like a field of listening heads” personifies grain to create movement and atmosphere; In harvest poetry, “wheat dust gilded the workers’ sleeves” can honor agricultural labor; A poet may contrast scarcity and plenty through “one loaf of wheat bread divided among six”; “The wheat field burned gold at evening” uses color imagery to connect land, light, and seasonal change
Additional Notes
Wheat links the labor of fields to bread on the table. It may symbolize fertility and sustenance, while harvested or broken wheat can suggest sacrifice and renewal.
Other Meanings of “Wheat”
Also Known As
Cereal Grain Wheatberry Golden Grain Staff of Life
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