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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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Athenian Nemesia

Historical Festival
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 festival honoring Nemesis at Rhamnous, associated with justice and the defeat of arrogance.

Detailed Definition
The Nemesia was celebrated at Rhamnous in Attica for Nemesis, the goddess who measured excess and corrected human overconfidence. Her sanctuary stood near the sea, and her worship joined stern moral balance with the grandeur of the landscape. The festival's underlying theme was not simple punishment but proportion: prosperity, victory, and pride could all provoke a dangerous imbalance. In poetry, Nemesis offers a figure for the returning tide, the overlooked debt, and the moment when triumph discovers its limit.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem may use the Athenian Nemesia to explore fear of angering the dead; “At Nemesia, we whisper so the restless graves may sleep”; The festival can create a scene of offerings made to deceased ancestors; “Black wine darkens the earth while Nemesia keeps watch”; A poet might contrast Nemesia’s remembrance of the dead with a city’s noisy public celebrations
Additional Notes
The Nemesia at Rhamnous honored Nemesis, goddess of retribution and moral balance. The festival expressed the belief that arrogance, or hubris, invites correction; Rhamnous was also famous for its monumental cult statue of Nemesis.
Also Known As
Nemesia Nemesia Festival
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