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

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Meditrinalia

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

Roman festival on October 11 involving tasting of new and old wine for health

Detailed Definition
Meditrinalia featured the ritual tasting of new and old wine with the formula "novum vetus vinum bibo, novo morbo medeor" ("I drink new and old wine, I heal new sickness"). It honored healing and vintage. In poetry, Meditrinalia symbolizes therapeutic balance, seasonal transition, and the medicinal power of wine—appearing in didactic and satirical verse to reflect on health, moderation, and the cyclical interplay of old and new in both body and society.
Example
Example in poetry:
Ovid’s Fasti notes Meditrinalia’s wine-tasting formula; In didactic poetry, Meditrinalia symbolizes healing balance and seasonal transition; Later poets reference Meditrinalia to explore wine as medicine; Contemporary eco-poets use Meditrinalia to advocate for mindful consumption; Historical verse reconstructs Meditrinalia to honor Roman therapeutic ritual; Poets evoke Meditrinalia to frame poetry as remedy for new and old wounds.
Additional Notes
Meditrinalia (Oct 11) involved tasting new and old wine with the formula “I drink new and old wine, I heal new sickness.” In poetry, it symbolizes therapeutic balance and seasonal transition. For students, it shows how health was ritualized. Poets can use it to reflect on moderation, memory, and the interplay of past and present.
Also Known As
Meditrinalis
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