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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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wheelbarrow

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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 wheelbarrow is a small one-wheeled hand cart with handles, used to carry soil, tools, crops, rubble, or other loads.

Detailed Definition
The wheelbarrow places much of a load's weight over a single wheel, allowing one person to move heavy material through gardens, farms, building sites, and yards. Its humble familiarity has made it a memorable poetic object, often associated with manual labour, rain, earth, and overlooked necessity. It can symbolise balance, dependence, and the quiet importance of ordinary things. Empty or laden, abandoned or in motion, it also provides a strong visual centre for meditations on work and rural life.
Example
Example in poetry:
William Carlos Williams's The Red Wheelbarrow makes an ordinary wheelbarrow central to a meditation on perception and dependence; The gardener pushed the wheelbarrow through the rain with a load of dark compost; A wheelbarrow may symbolise humble labour and the importance of overlooked objects; Its single wheel requires balance, making it an image of effort and cooperation.
Additional Notes
The wheelbarrow uses a single wheel to carry much of a load while the operator balances and directs it by the handles. It belongs to gardens, farms, building sites, and yards, making it an emblem of practical, often overlooked labour. Poetry may focus on its colour, wet surface, load, emptiness, or dependence on balance. Related terms include barrow, cart, shovel, garden, soil, compost, rubble, harvest, labour, balance, burden, ordinary object, rural life, and the poetic significance of things that seem insignificant.
Also Known As
barrow
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