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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.

I want a simpler life, without the hassle of being online. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit the life I want.

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.

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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May Day

Time And Calendar
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 on 1 May celebrating spring. Its poetic associations include flowers, dancing, fertility, and the return of green life.

Detailed Definition
May Day is celebrated on 1 May and has long been associated with spring revelry, maypoles, garlands, and the greening of the land. Its energy is communal, youthful, and exuberant, making it useful in pastoral and lyric poetry. Yet poets may also complicate its brightness by setting it against political labor observances, lost rural customs, or the brevity of blossom. May Day can therefore mark both celebration and the fleeting nature of seasonal joy.
Example
Example in poetry:
On May Day, the poem circles a maypole with ribbons bright as streams of color; A poet may use May Day dawn to celebrate spring’s return and youthful energy; “We washed our faces in May Day dew” draws on folk traditions of renewal and beauty; May Day can also create irony when festive flowers appear beside political protest or labor marches
Additional Notes
May Day imagery often includes maypoles, garlands, blossom, and dancing. It can celebrate fertility and renewal, though poets may also question idealized rural tradition.
Other Meanings of “May Day”
Also Known As
Beltane
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