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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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Athenian Pandia

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 Zeus at Athens, probably held after the City Dionysia.

Detailed Definition
The Pandia was an Athenian festival connected with Zeus and apparently celebrated after the City Dionysia, though the surviving evidence is fragmentary. Its name may suggest brightness or the whole community, and later sources associate it with civic gathering and sacrifice. Because its details are uncertain, the festival is especially useful as a poetic threshold between recorded ritual and lost practice. It can evoke a god beneath an open sky, a city assembled in expectation, and history's half-erased calendar.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poet may invoke the Athenian Pandia as a festival honoring Zeus; “At Pandia, thunder answers the torches raised to Zeus”; The festival can represent the whole community gathered under a sky god; “The city lifts one prayer at Pandia, from hilltop shrine to harbor”; A poem might use Pandia’s spring setting to join divine power with the return of light
Additional Notes
The Pandia honored Zeus and was probably celebrated after the City Dionysia. Its placement may have connected the festival calendar with civic unity and divine order, although surviving evidence is limited and some details remain uncertain.
Also Known As
Pandia Pandia Festival
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