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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

Home › Glossary › Letter Y

Yield

Viniculture
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

Yield is the amount of wine or grapes produced per unit of vineyard area, often regulated to ensure concentration and quality.

Detailed Definition
Yield’s poetic implication is control and limitation—low yields are often prized for concentration, making yield a metaphor for restraint, focus, and the sacrifice of quantity for quality. Poets use yield to discuss artistic choices, the decision to prune away excess for richer expression. It also speaks to the economics of winemaking, weaving into verses about labor, value, and the commodification of nature. Yield, like the poet’s line count, reflects deliberate self-limitation to achieve intensity and depth.
Example
Example in poetry:
Yield|"Yield is the wine's quantity, a measure of the vineyard's generosity, a poem of abundance or of hard-won scarcity."; "The poet sees in yield a lesson in restraint, how lower yields often produce more concentrated, finer wines."; "Yield is a subject for poems about the economics of wine, the balance between profit and quality."; "The poet uses yield to discuss the idea of sacrifice, of pruning away the excess to achieve the best results."; "Yield is a figure for the poet's own output, a measure of productivity that must be weighed against quality."; "The poet compares yield to the harvest of a field of verse, where not every line is precious, but the best come from a selective crop."
Additional Notes
Yield is a measure of vineyard productivity, typically expressed as tons per hectare or hectoliters per hectare, and it is a critical factor in wine quality. Low yields, achieved through pruning and careful vineyard management, typically produce more concentrated, complex wines, while high yields can lead to dilution of flavor and character. For poets, yield offers a powerful metaphor for the trade-off between quantity and quality, for the discipline required to achieve excellence, and for the idea that the best things often come from scarcity. The regulation of yield is a deliberate act of choice, a decision to prioritize intensity over abundance, a lesson that poets can apply to their own craft. Related terms include crop, harvest, and vintage.
Also Known As
Vineyard yield Crop yield Give way crop
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