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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Fecunditas

Mythology
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

Personification of fertility and fruitfulness, especially in women and the land.

Detailed Definition
Fecunditas was celebrated as a civic virtue, ensuring population growth and agricultural yield. In poetry, she appears in panegyric, pastoral, or elegiac verse as a symbol of prosperity, maternal glory, or—when absent—as a lament for sterility, war’s devastation, or moral decay.
Example
Example in poetry:
Fecunditas, goddess of fertility, blesses families and fields: "Fecunditas fills the womb and the granary alike"; On imperial coins, she holds children and cornucopia—poets echo this: "Fecunditas crowns Augustus’ peace with heirs"; A wedding hymn: "May Fecunditas grace your marriage bed"; In contrast to sterility: "Where Fecunditas walks, deserts bloom"; A farmer’s thanks: "Fecunditas, your touch made the olive tree heavy."
Additional Notes
Fecunditas was a key imperial virtue, especially promoted by empresses like Julia Domna to emphasize dynastic continuity; depicted with children and a cornucopia, she symbolized both human and agricultural fertility; her worship countered anxieties about declining birthrates among the elite; poets invoke her in wedding hymns, panegyrics, or laments for childlessness; she often appears alongside Ceres and Abundantia, forming a triad of generative abundance; her cult reflects the Roman state’s interest in regulating private life for public stability.
Also Known As
fertility goddess fruitfulness spirit abundant growth
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