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.

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 H

Harvest Moon

Folklore
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

The Harvest Moon is the full moon nearest the autumn equinox, traditionally aiding farmers with extended evening light for reaping crops.

Detailed Definition
Its bright, prolonged rise allows work after sunset. In folklore, it marks gratitude and preparation for winter. In poetry, the Harvest Moon represents culmination, thankfulness, the boundary between plenty and lean times, and lunar benevolence toward human labor, inspiring reflections on cycles of sowing and reaping, mortality, and golden fulfillment.
Example
Example in poetry:
Harvest Moon in classic verse: 'The Harvest Moon in splendor rises, casting silver light across the lands, a beacon of hope for gathering hands.'; Poets use Harvest Moon for labor: 'Harvest Moon, closest to equinox, extends the working light, allowing reapers and writers to complete their yields.'; A thanksgiving poem: 'Under Harvest Moon's golden glow, the fields surrender bounty, inspiring gratitude-laden stanzas of earth's generosity.'; Harvest Moon symbolizes culmination: 'Harvest Moon marks the peak of ripeness, where poets reflect on seasons of growth and the fruits of patient effort.'; Seasonal transition: 'Harvest Moon bridges summer and fall, its large rising face a muse for verses on abundance, change, and farewell to light.'
Additional Notes
The Harvest Moon, the full moon closest to the autumn equinox, traditionally provided extended evening light for farmers to gather crops, earning folklore status as a practical blessing with names like Corn Moon in some cultures; it symbolizes culmination, gratitude, and the bridge from growth to storage; poetry benefits from its large, orange rising face and themes of labor's reward, encouraging odes to abundance or seasonal closure; comparative study with Barley Moon or Hunter's Moon reveals shared agrarian roots, aiding professors in teaching how lunar nomenclature preserved practical knowledge and inspired literary reflections on human-nature interdependence.
Also Known As
autumnal orb reaping light September glory
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